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- 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
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
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
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[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one ...
— John Geddes
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
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 pagesThat I can't lie to them about my existence — Yarro Rai
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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 best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
— Russell Banks
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
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
Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
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
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 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
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
— Donna Tartt
