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You are either born a writer or you are not. — Cormac McCarthy

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell

Write a book online or help to write a book to give the Right Shape of the Imagination. Contact ghost writer Jerry Payne. — Jerry Payner

So I had this problem
work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer. — Robert Bloch

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. — Martin Amis

Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God — Anonymous

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications. — Raymond Carver

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

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising. — Hanif Kureishi

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. — Joyce Carol Oates

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head. — Kurt Vonnegut

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. — Gail Caldwell

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes. — Natalie MacLean

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J. — George R R Martin

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer. — Joseph Conrad

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. — Nathan Lowell

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. — Jewel Staite

A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. — Joan Didion

I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it. — Signe Baumane

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living. — Christopher Buckley

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. — Eyvind Johnson

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer. — Mark Victor Hansen

I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra

I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be. — Jami Attenberg

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality. — Emma Goldman

If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing? — Matt Drabble

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer. — Toni Morrison

Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer. — Isaac Asimov

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer. — Mary McCarthy

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. — John Le Carre

I'm not a writer, director or producer. — Martin Freeman

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. — Mike White

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look? — Nancy Lynn Jarvis

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer. — Christopher Eccleston

I'm not negative, pessimistic, angry, antisocial or schizophrenic. I'm a writer, and entitled to all that with pride. — Daniel Marques

As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator. — Marlon James

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me. — Paul Dano

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback. — Ben Lovett

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does. — Jorge Luis Borges

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer. — Chris Rock

Being a writer is like being pregnant - you either are or you aren't. — L.E. Truscott

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again. — George R R Martin

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another. — Greg Rucka

One is a writer, or one is not. — Monique Wittig

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

When fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor. — Fred Brooks

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy. — Larry Brooks

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise. — Philip Kerr

Why do I write?
To be somewhere else
To get free of ourselves
To stop
To stop being anything or anywhere at all
To disappear — Rainbow Rowell

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

People like dialogue. Being a part of it or reading it. Me personally, I'd rather write it. — Andrea L'Artiste

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. — Tracy Letts

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul

Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. — Charles Bukowski

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer. — Steven Hall

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea. — Carrie Fisher

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans

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

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami

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

I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. — Shia Labeouf

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic. — Julian Barnes

I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. — Kurt Busiek

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey

The reviewer's view knew not of the true part of the writer's view, so good or bad, do not brew, and let them through to another part of you. — Mark Donnelly

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. — John Ridley

A good writer wants from us - or has no right to ask more than - intelligence, good faith and time. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing. — Elizabeth Kostova

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written. — Jared Harris

An artist, as much as a writer or composer, needed themes, needed ideas. — Hanya Yanagihara

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. — John Grisham

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. — Erica Jong

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. — Shel Silverstein

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or ... So everybody understands the hours. — Julie Benz

The writer of stories must please, or he will be nothing. And he must teach whether he wish to teach or no. How — Anthony Trollope

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins