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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

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

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

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch

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

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise. — Ram Vignesh

Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent. — Kevin Focke

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 only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee

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

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

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

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

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

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

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

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

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do. — Marge Piercy

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

[...] 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

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. — Paddy Chayefsky

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. — Miguel Syjuco

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

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas. — Criss Jami

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

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so. — Anna Bayes

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

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone. — Lisa Unger

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. — Ann Leckie

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them. — Maria Stoica

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

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

Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days ... it will demand absolutely everything of you. — Christy Hall

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. — Len Wein

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

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

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

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

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

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

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

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin

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

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