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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

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

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

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect. — Jon Spaihts

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

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. — John Irving

There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet

I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory. — Karen Russell

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

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

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer. — Ann Packer

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

Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos

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

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person. — Dawn French

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow. — Ice Cube

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer. — Amy Tan

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

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. — Tina Fey

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

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

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

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!' — Graham Moore

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

I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do. — Tom Scholz

When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly. — Greg Rucka

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

The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over. — Margaret Atwood

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting. — Rafael Yglesias

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

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

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

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me. — Ellen Gallagher

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.

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper. — Nick Flynn

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

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. — J.K. Rowling

Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written. — Barbara Casey