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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!
— Laurel Nakadate
I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.
— Paris Hilton
And if that only inflames your curiosity, I say to you, a writer without curiosity is a bird without feathers.
— Jeff Salyards
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
— Dornford Yates
You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.
— Emma Donoghue
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 always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.
— Umberto Eco
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
— Flannery O'Connor
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
— Isadora Duncan
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
— Hanif Kureishi
I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
— Kristin Gore
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
— Agatha Christie
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
— Fred Saberhagen
I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
— Harry Treadaway
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Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.
— Jack Miles
Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
— Jess Walter
I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will.
— Lisa Marie Perry
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
Now, I like a writer party, I like writers, I am the child of writers, I am a writer. I still love scribbling that word - WRITER - anytime
— Gillian Flynn
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
— Anthony Trollope
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
When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
— William Kent Krueger
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
— Thomas Mann
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
— Dan Simmons
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
— Andrew Pyper
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
— Anthony Liccione
I've always been admired as a musician and painter but not spiritual writer, and that's why God's an artist, not priest.
— Robin Sacredfire
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
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
— Karin Slaughter
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing.
— Claes Oldenburg
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
— Harlan Ellison
I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.
— Edan Lepucki
If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
— Shel Silverstein
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
— David Mitchell
I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
— Cynthia Ozick
That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears.
— Erica Jong
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
— Peter Matthiessen
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
— Alexander McCall Smith
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
— Heidi Julavits
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.
— Gregory Maguire
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.
— John Hughes
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
— Rachel Bloom
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
— Marlon James
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.
— Charles Bukowski
A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!!
— Anamika Mishra
I always thought writer's block was something that prats used as an easy excuse for not doing any work.
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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
Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.
— Susan Juby
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
— Mahmoud Darwish
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
— Criss Jami
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In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
— Terry Southern
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
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired ... they're all incredibly well-read.
— Steve Toltz
I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer.
— Anne Lamott
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
— Charlotte Eriksson
'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
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
— Burton Rascoe
Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
— Dolly Parton
Writer? Author? Storyteller, that's what I decided to be.
— Robert McCammon
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
— Alice McDermott
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?
— Johnny Rich
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
— Ken Kesey
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
— J.G. Ballard
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
— Mary Archer
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
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
— Pearl Cleage
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows.
— Greg Rucka
One has to live a life that creates a writer.
— Erno Paasilinna
The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.
— Eileen Myles
Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!
— Odeya Rush
