Memorable Writers Quotes

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"The best way to not become a writer is to have a good job."
Robertson Davies
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath
"The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write, and keep on writing."
James A. Michener
"I writers the way I am, not the way I think I should be."
Ray Bradbury
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
Japanese Proverb
"A great poet is a greater liar than a great novelist."
Vladimir Nabokov
"I can’t write without a reader. It’s like a trapdoor I open to let you in."
Jessica Ruston
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"There is no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."
Terry Pratchett
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
Ernest Hemingway
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow
"The writer is the one who will generate the whole universe of the text."
Toni Morrison
"A novelist is a storyteller who uses the long form."
John Updike
"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."
Pat Conroy
"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
Ernest Hemingway
"I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The writer is both a sadist and a masochist."
Rebecca West
"A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing."
Eugene Ionesco
"The most beautiful things are those that madness produces and we call them art."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Every writer is a writer of a certain time and place, and we share that time and place with our readers."
David Mitchell
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
Victor Hugo
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
William Styron
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"Writing is the painting of the voice."
Voltaire
"The secret of being a writer is to write, and that is why we write."
Anne Rice
"Writers aren’t born; they’re made. We are the sum of our experiences."
Kurt Vonnegut
"A writer’s job is to tell the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable."
Margaret Atwood
"A good writer is not necessarily a good thinker, but he is a good thinker’s best chance."
Cynthia Ozick
"The hardest part about writing is getting to the end of a sentence."
Mitch Albom
"You don’t know what you can do until you try."
John W. Gardner
"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
Garrison Keillor
"To write is to write is to write."
Gertrude Stein
"I am a writer. I am the only one who can tell my story."
Nikki Giovanni
"A word after a word after a word is power."
Margaret Atwood
"The writer's job is to make the world a little less like it is and a little more like it should be."
Michael Chabon
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
Daphne du Maurier
"The only way to write is to write."
Julianna Baggott
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"There is no such thing as a good writer, only a good rewriter."
Robert Cormier
"I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say."
Flannery O'Connor
"The best thing about writing is that you can do it wherever you are: a café, a park, your couch."
Meg Cabot
"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
"Every writer is a writer of a place."
Susan Orlean
"The only kind of writing is rewriting."
Ernest Hemingway
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
Voltaire
"You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Words are a lens to focus one’s mind."
Ayn Rand
"A writer is approachable. A writer is not writing to impress people; a writer is writing to reveal."
David Foster Wallace
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
Jules Renard
"I think the best way to write is to write in a way that doesn’t feel like writing."
Truman Capote
"Writers have to dive deep into themselves and come out with a little piece of truth, something that has validity and a meaning."
Isabel Allende
"The first draft of anything is shit."
Ernest Hemingway
"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
Joseph Stalin
"The only way to deal with writer's block is to write."
Jodi Picoult
"Writing is a form of therapy."
Toni Morrison
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."
Stephen King
"We are all writers; we are just waiting to write."
George Orwell
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
James A. Baldwin
"The secret of being a good writer is to say: 'I am a writer.'"
Richard Bausch
"There is no such thing as writer's block; that was invented by people in California who couldn’t write."
Terry Pratchett
"A writer is someone who can make you cry with joy."
Francesca Lia Block
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
Herman Melville
"It is better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
Cyril Connolly
"You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The more you read, the more you can write."
James Clear
"Good writing is essentially rewriting."
E.B. White
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Write what should not be forgotten."
Isabel Allende
"To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Stories are the immersive DNA of our lives."
David Mitchell
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story."
Terry Pratchett
"Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go."
E.L. Doctorow
"The writer is the one who dreams and then writes down the dream."
Anne Rice
"We are all writers. We just need a place to tell our stories."
Khaled Hosseini
"To write is to be human; to live, to have experience."
Bova M. Brian
"You can make anything by writing."
C.S. Lewis
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
Anaïs Nin
"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
Jessamyn West
"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
E.B. White
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
Thomas Mann
"There is no perfect time to write. You simply do it."
Barbara Kingsolver
"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
Ayn Rand
"The true writer has no choice; he must write."
M.F.K. Fisher
"Writing is its own reward."
Henry Miller
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up."
Stephen King
"It is my belief that writers are to portray the human condition—at its best and worst."
Richard K. Morgan
"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."
Ansel Adams
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
E.L. Doctorow
"To write is to live twice."
Anaïs Nin
"The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Agatha Christie
"Writing is its own kind of magic—you're crafting worlds that didn't exist before."
J.K. Rowling
"Every writer is a writer of the hybrid field, continuously trying to lend voice to their own mystery."
Marlon James
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
William Faulkner
"Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work."
Chuck Close
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