Writer Quotes
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
Ernest Hemingway
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I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. Milne
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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
Joy Williams
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
Macaulay Culkin
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey
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There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
Walter Kirn
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Walter Mosley
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
Dennis Cooper
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I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll ever write.
Michelle Wolf
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards
