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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. — Ben Okri

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] — John Osborne

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer. — Candace Bushnell

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English. — Daniel Alarcon

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. — Cynthia Voigt

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. — Avi

What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want. — Anatole Broyard

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words. — Khaled Talib

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about. — Ambrose Bierce

I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing. — Debasish Mridha

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul. — Betsy Lerner

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction. — Tom Robbins

Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent. — Kevin Focke

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything. — Terry McDonell

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale. — Fennel Hudson

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them. — Adele

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort. — Jamie L. Harding

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. — Ann Goldstein

I'm a writer," she declared before she drained the glass. "I should learn about everything. — Mary Cox

When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.
When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse. — A. Saleh

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful — Lee Bice-Matheson

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence. — James Frey

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. — William Stafford

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. — Charlotte Eriksson

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. — Marianne Moore

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! — Jackie Collins

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race. — Dee Dee M. Scott

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is. — William Zinsser

Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself. — Robin Sacredfire

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. — Stephen Sondheim

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself. — George Bernard Shaw

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. — Will Eisner

I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about ... only out of time to write it in. — Rayne Hall

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and ... most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem. — Ann Reed

I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to. — Avijeet Das

I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens. — Kevin J. Fitzgerald

There is always, always, always something to write about. — Rob Bignell, Editor

I didn't become a writer to write about me. — Salman Rushdie

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing. — May J. Panayi

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. — Joyce Carol Oates

The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer. — Nigella Lawson

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?
A: Explaining what that is. — Christy Hall

No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one ... — John Geddes

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block. — Robert B. Parker

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything. — Sara Sheridan

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. — Tim Cahill

Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all — Charles Bukowski

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out. — Robin Hobb

There is something so innocent about blank pages
That I can't lie to them about my existence — Yarro Rai

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South. — William S. Burroughs

He had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular — Aldous Huxley

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine. — Chriscinthia Blount

Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer! — Samuel Colbran

Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute. — Jennifer V Clancy

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about. — Hanya Yanagihara

The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line. — Amit Kalantri

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. — R.L. Stine

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. — Christy Hall

The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them. — Solomon Woytowich

I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal. — John Steinbeck

Being a writer is not just about typing. It's also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey. — Joanna Penn

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work. — John Hughes

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it ... — Erica Jong

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. — Baby Halder

The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story. — Stephanie Ayers

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can't talk about, write about it! — Tracey Reddick

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer. — Jean Craighead George

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine. — Rob Bignell, Editor

When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply. — Dan Savage

The most amazing travellers were to humble to write about it — Guido Colombo

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about. — Sharon Delarose

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you. — Avijeet Das

It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Samuel Hynes

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. — Eric Brown

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. — Jon Krakauer

A writer's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one word, one sentence, one phrase at a time. — C.J. Heck

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. — Eugene Ionesco

I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud. — Jillian Medoff

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

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person. — Jean Rhys

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old. — Chris Crutcher

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer. — Robert Rodriguez

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories, — Stephen King

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much. — Donna Tartt

The worst thing about being a writer is having to pretend you know what you're talking about. — Marty Rubin

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it. — Stephen Sondheim