Writer Quotes
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.
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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
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For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
