Writer Quotes - page 2

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. (Gertrude Stein)
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. View quote
Paul Valéry
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. View quote
Joseph Addison
I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness. View quote
William Saroyan
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. View quote
William Saroyan
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. View quote
Dean Acheson
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. View quote
Willa Cather
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. (Richard Bach)
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. View quote
James Baldwin
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. View quote
Marianne Moore
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. View quote
Gene Fowler
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. View quote
Mickey Spillane
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. View quote
Mickey Spillane
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer. (Rod Serling)
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. View quote
Robertson Davies