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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
— Nadine Gordimer
I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.
— Paris Hilton
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
— Paul Johnson
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
— Markus Zusak
Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly.
— Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell
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
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
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
— Joss Whedon
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 writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
— Theodor Mommsen
I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
— Christopher Durang
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
Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters
— Lucy Coats
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.
— Fred Saberhagen
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
— Randy Alcorn
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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
The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.
— Ocean Crisstopher Poet
You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely.
— Ava Sinclair
Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go?
— Sherman Alexie
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
— Jazmine Sullivan
Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.
— Stephan Pastis
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
— James McBride
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
— Samuel McChord Crothers
There is a reason why I am a writer ... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!
— Phil Wohl
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
— Brandon Sanderson
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before.
— Victoria Connelly
People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.
— Genesis Quihuis
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
— Carla H. Krueger
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
One has to live a life that creates a writer.
— Erno Paasilinna
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
— Duane Michals
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
— Evan Daugherty
I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
— Mary Stuart Masterson
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.
— Liz Brixius
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
— Irwin Shaw
As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
— James Hilton
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
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
When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.
— Paulo Coelho
No sense in a man with writer's block going to New York.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
— John Rogers
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
— E.B. White
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
— Patrick Modiano
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
If you're a writer, you write. If you don't, you're dead. You have no home, no reason to be offered a seat at any table, and no reason to live.
— James Grissom
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
— Ann Leckie
I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
— Jonathan Franzen
I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
— James Lasdun
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
— Marlon James
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
— Malcolm Gladwell
'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
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
— Gabrielle Roy
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
I always wanted to be a writer.
— John Searles
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
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 considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
— Leonard Cohen
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
— Arthur Evans
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
— Jonathan Ames
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
— John Updike
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
— Dwight Yoakam
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
A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time.
— Terrance Zepke
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
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
— Mahmoud Darwish
Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day!
— Nathan Haddish Mogos
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
