Writer Quotes

• I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Up
  • Mystery
  • Essential

• As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Important
  • Fiction
  • Genre

• It’s just that everything is so . . . unreliable lately.” “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he said. “Is that a quote?” He nodded. “Rabindranath Tagore. He’s a great writer. You should read him.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Water
  • Writer
  • Quote

• My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Honest
  • Agent

• I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Enough
  • Writer
  • Crank

• What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Different
  • Writer

• You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Alone
  • Writer

• The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Experience
  • Imagination
  • Writer

• People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • People
  • Writer
  • Power Words

• Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Writer
  • Prophetic
  • Alan Moore

• I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Person
  • Musician
  • Arts

• Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writer

• Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.

  

  Katherine Neville
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Remember

• A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Possibility
  • Souls
  • Satisfying

• My impression of him, and the impressions of everyone in the office, was he is a very fine lawyer, a very hard worker, a beautiful writer and absolutely, meticulously objective.

  

  Charles Fried
  • Lawyer
  • Impression
  • Worker

• Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.

  

  John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
  • Confidence
  • Ability
  • Director

• A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Bells

• I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Inspiration
  • Changes
  • Observational

• The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

  

  Paul Di Filippo
  • Internet
  • Writer
  • Abilities

• What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

  

  Burton Rascoe
  • Wife
  • Writer

• I never set out to be a published writer.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Writer
  • Published
  • Set Out

• The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

  

  Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Faith
  • Effort
  • Writer

• As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.

  

  Michael Easton
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Writer

• Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.

  

  Joseph Kanon
  • Competition
  • Writer
  • Editor

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