Writer Quotes
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.
Stieg Larsson
A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
Nunnally Johnson
It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,' or 'Benjamin Wittes, who wasn't even a lawyer.' Now it's just, like, 'Benjamin Wittes, who's a friend of Jim Comey's.'
Benjamin Wittes
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
Albert Camus
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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.
William Faulkner
For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
Marcel Proust
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
Emily Yoffe
I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
Nat Hentoff
“If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.”
Allan W. Eckert
Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
Ethan Canin
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.
Simone de Beauvoir
