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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
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
The writer's life is frightful
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
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
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
— Raymond Chandler
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
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
— Hanif Kureishi
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
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
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.
— Dan Alatorre
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
— Philip Pullman
Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
— Gustave Flaubert
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
— Francine Prose
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.
— Brandon Sanderson
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 I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
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
If you can't talk about, write about it!
— Tracey Reddick
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.
— Liz Brixius
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
The blank page is the canvas on which a writer paints a story.
— Stephanie Ayers
If you don't write, then read.
— Sylvia L'Namira
You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
— Harlan Ellison
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I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
— Paddy Chayefsky
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
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
— Dorothy Day
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
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
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
A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.
— Maija Rhee Devine
Writers will often find themselves steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
— William Strunk Jr.
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
— Burton Rascoe
I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
— Carla H. Krueger
Be a great writer when you write your life's song.
— Debasish Mridha
I have a writer's concentration: intense, but flickering.
— Donald McCaig
You cannot prove your worth by bylines and busyness.
— Katelyn S. Bolds
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
— Ann Leckie
Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
— Amity Gaige
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
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
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
You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
— John Rogers
It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times.
— B. Chancellor Burgweger
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
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
— Susan Sontag
The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.
— Rachel L. Schade
One is a writer, or one is not.
— Monique Wittig
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
— Joseph Heller
I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun.
— Alan W. Harris
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
— Michelle D. Kwasney
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 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
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.
— Arthur Evans
