Memorable Quotes About Writers

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"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
Douglas Adams
"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."
Martin Luther
"The writer is both a scribe and a prophet."
W. H. Auden
"Writing is thinking on paper."
William Zinsser
"The writer must wade into water, but the reader is not required to swim."
John McPhee
"To write is to be in a place where you can embrace silence and listen to the unheard."
Aimee Bender
"Writing is a form of therapy."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Getting it down is the first step; then you can worry about making it good."
Will Self
"As a writer, you should not be afraid to be yourself."
Richard Bausch
"Writers are made of the same stuff as the stories they tell."
Khaled Hosseini
"There is no such thing as writing. There is only rewriting."
John McPhee
"To write means to be alive."
Victor Hugo
"A writer's job is to make the world feel like a better place, not a worse one."
Annie Dillard
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."
Samuel Johnson
"Writing is the painting of the voice."
Voltaire
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
Terry Pratchett
"A writer’s only responsibility is to his or her art."
William Faulkner
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
Albert Camus
"Good fiction is a kind of alchemy."
Diana Gabaldon
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
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"To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard."
Kurt Vonnegut
"The greatest part of a writer's time is taken up with his own inadequacy."
C.S. Lewis
"If we don’t tell our stories, they will disappear."
Alice Walker
"All great writers are great readers."
Mason Cooley
"The writer must believe that what he says is not only worth saying, but that it will be heard."
Nadine Gordimer
"Every writer is a writer of his age."
Karl Ove Knausgård
"A writer is someone who can make people see what he sees, feel what he feels, and hear what he hears."
Ray Bradbury
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
Joseph Brodsky
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading."
Elizabeth Hardwick
"Writers do not just write; they inspire thought, influence change, and evoke emotion."
Anonymous
"A writer writes not because he wants to say something, but because he has something to say."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
Joseph Stalin
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
E. B. White
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
Gustave Flaubert
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"I’m not a very good writer, but I’m a very good reader."
Michael Chabon
"A good writer possesses not only his own ideas, but also the ideas of others."
Vladimir Nabokov
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
Ernest Hemingway
"Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
Mark Twain
"The writer's job is to tell the truth."
James Baldwin
"Writers aren't exactly people. They are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"A writer only takes that seriously. It is the only sacred thing he has."
Paul Auster
"The writer is the creator of the world of the story."
Willa Cather
"I think a writer is someone who wants to be heard."
David Foster Wallace
"Writers should be read but never seen."
Edna Ferber
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
Stephen King
"The writer's duty is to keep on writing."
William Faulkner
"There is no such thing as writer's block; that was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."
Terry Pratchett
"The only way to write is to write."
Dorothy Parker
"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect."
Adam Osborne
"The best thing about writing is that you don’t have to be perfect."
Diana Gabaldon
"For a writer, a blank page is a freedom to write or rewrite a thousand stories."
Sally Schneider
"If it's not on the page, it’s not on the stage."
Maya Angelou
"The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written."
Joyce Carol Oates
"A word after a word after a word is power."
Margaret Atwood
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Agatha Christie
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else."
Gloria Steinem
"The writer's job is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, and to take sides."
Norman Mailer
"A writer is a world trapped in a person."
Victor Hugo
"The writer must find a way to make his world feel like the real world, no matter how strange or surreal."
Cormac McCarthy
"The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe."
David Hare
"The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make a book."
Samuel Johnson
"One day I will find the right words, and they all will be simple."
Jack Kerouac
"To write is human, to edit is divine."
Stephen King
"There is no greater treasure than the one found in books; take the time to be the writer you wished to be."
M.A. Book
"A good writer is essentially a storyteller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
George Orwell
"Writing is both the act of creation and the act of self-discovery."
Nora Ephron
"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention."
Flannery O'Connor
"The secret of becoming a writer is to be a reader first."
Augusten Burroughs
"You can’t write a book if you don’t read books."
Unknown
"A writer thinks with his pen."
Lucio Orazio
"The road to hell is paved with adjectives."
Stephen King
"The first draft of anything is shit."
Ernest Hemingway
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
E.L. Doctorow
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
Thomas Mann
"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and the price we pay is high."
Fernando Pessoa
"A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit."
Richard Bach
"The writer is the only one who has a chance to be the hero of the story."
Michael Ende
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Agatha Christie
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
E.L. Doctorow
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
Herman Melville
"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree and then throw rocks at him."
Vikram Seth
"You can make anything by writing."
C.S. Lewis
"I can’t write without a reader. It’s exactly like a kiss—you can’t do it alone."
John Steinbeck
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
Jules Renard
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write."
Samuel Johnson
"The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write, and keep writing."
Katherine Mansfield
"Writing is like a relationship, it requires consistency and passion."
Margaret Atwood
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
Isaac Asimov
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Ansel Adams
"Writing is both a privilege and a responsibility; don’t waste it."
David Foster Wallace
"Writing is a form of truth-telling; you can’t pretend to be something you’re not."
Zadie Smith
"The only way to learn to be a writer is to write."
Anne Rice
"Words are a lens to focus one’s mind."
Ayn Rand
"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."
Stephen King
"A writer is just a reader that writes."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
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