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I'm more of a writer than a fighter you see.
— Luke Pearson
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
— Paul Johnson
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
— Markus Zusak
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there.
— Stephen King
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
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
— Joss Whedon
A writer's job is never finished.
— Sai Marie Johnson
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
— Theodor Mommsen
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
— Aleksandar Hemon
I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
— Christopher Durang
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.
— Daniel Radcliffe
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
— Jonathan Lethem
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
— Randy Alcorn
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Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.
— Jack Miles
I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.
— Lisa Marie Perry
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.
— Marv Wolfman
I'm a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
— Dwight Yoakam
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
— K.E. Garvey
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
A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.
— Terrance Zepke
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
— Neil LaBute
Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.
— Susan Juby
You really have to love words if you're going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly spend a lot of time with words.
— Natalie Babbitt
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
— Karin Slaughter
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket
— Emily Nelson
If you're a writer, you're always working.
— Alan Furst
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
— Criss Jami
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
— Salman Rushdie
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
Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day!
— Nathan Haddish Mogos
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
— Mahmoud Darwish
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
— James Lasdun
My experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.
— Marion Dane Bauer
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
— James T. Farrell
I always wanted to be a writer.
— John Searles
If you're a writer, you write. If you don't, you're dead. You have no home, no reason to be offered a seat at any table, and no reason to live.
— James Grissom
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
— Ann Leckie
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
— Jonathan Franzen
I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
— Charlotte Eriksson
You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
— John Rogers
As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
— Malcolm Gladwell
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
— Rachel Kushner
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
— Henry Watson Fowler
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
— Shia Labeouf
Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any ... ''You talk like a writer,' said Francois. — Charles Bukowski
I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
— David Shapiro
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
— E.B. White
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
— Terry Southern
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
— Walter Smith
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
— Marlon James
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
— Patrick Modiano
Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.
— Chloe Thurlow
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read.
— Steve Toltz
