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Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task. — David Burr Gerrard

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ... — Tim Perkins

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. — William, Saroyan

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer. — Lin Yutang

I prefer a man who is unskillful, who is an awkward writer, but who has something to say, who is dealing himself one time on every page. — Ralph Keyes

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'. — Haruki Murakami

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. — Cass Elliot

I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am. — Damian Barr

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning. — David Mitchell

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them. — Criss Jami

A writer is someone who has written something today — J. A. Jance

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. — L. Sprague De Camp

Who is as free as a writer? Nadie es tan libre como un escritor . . . No one is as free as a writer! — Sofia Espinoza Alvarez

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself. — Henry Wotton

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code. — Clifford Geertz

A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story. — Aleksandr Voinov

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave. — Brad Thor

A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. — Ernest Hemingway,

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. — Philip Pullman

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. — Karl Kraus

A humorist is a writer who's not funny enough to call themselves a comedian. — Dan Alatorre

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. — Alice McDermott

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself. — Jay Neugeboren

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. — Dean Wesley Smith

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? — Kurt Vonnegut

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way. — Simon Beaufoy

The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope

An author is a writer who didn't give up. — Richard Bach

A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man? — Zach Braff

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension — Anais Nin

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't. — Roger Scruton

There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you. — Tim Campbell

A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave. — Stephen King

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes. — Pat Schneider

I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life. — Amos Lee

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — James Baldwin

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time. — Peter Gould

A writer is someone who writes! — Pat Schneider

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a
tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys? — Richard Ford

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort. — Joe Dante

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops. — William, Saroyan

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. — Dr. Seuss

A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows ... but to reach into them too. — Thomas Scopel

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do. — Donald Barthelme

Any writer who presents an American home today where the television is not the head of the family is living in a fantasy world. — Kurt Vonnegut

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

A writer is a person who writes.

Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time — Andrew Puckett

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. — Jim Bishop

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. — Janet Frame

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death. — Edna Ferber

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. — Orhan Pamuk

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.' — Paul Park

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly. — Christopher Rice

It's not often you find someone who is a good friend and good writer, Charlotte was both. — E.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. — William Maxwell

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down. — Ali Smith

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book. — Christopher Koch

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline. — Ayelet Waldman

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox. — Charles Baudelaire

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious. — Ray Bradbury

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it. — Katherine Mansfield

A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world. — Paulo Coelho

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning. — Gerald Brommer

A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities. — Sol Stein

A poor writer is one who names rather than represents. — Italo Calvino

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane ... ain't gonna get very far! — Jo Linsdell

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing. — Robert Caro

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. — Susan Sontag

A writer is someone who has no choice — Andrew Updegrove

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley

Robin Buss is a writer and translator who contributes regularly to The Times Educational Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement and other papers. — Alexandre Dumas

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. — Arda Collins

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person. — Richard Wright

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. — Johann Georg Hamann

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? — Federico Fellini

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. — Howard Barker

An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble. — Walter Kirn

A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist. — Kevin Focke

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all. — Peter Matthiessen

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is. — Jill McCorkle

Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories. — Lucian Barnes

Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. — Marguerite Duras

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson. — David Lagercrantz

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. — Isaac Asimov

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. — Sandra Chami Kassis

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom. — Sheldon Vanauken

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. — David Frum

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations. — Julia Alvarez

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one. — James Bernard Frost

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run — Channing Pollock