"A
writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the
writer learns."
View quotes by P L TraversLife cannot defeat a
writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a
writer's love until death.
View quotes by Edna FerberYou become a
writer because you need to become a
writer - nothing else.
View quotes by Grace PaleyA great
writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser
writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
View quotes by Cyril ConnollyThe homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [
writer] thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
View quotes by Ricky MartinHe (the
writer) warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies (The Art of Political Lying)
View quotes by John ArbuthnotThe shelf life of the modern hardback
writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt
View quotes by Calvin TrillinA memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the
writer.
View quotes by Dean AchesonSome critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural
writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
View quotes by Maya AngelouThe
writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
View quotes by James BaldwinAny
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 quotes by James BaldwinA professional
writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
View quotes by Richard BachGiven that external reality is a fiction, the
writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
View quotes by J G BallardAbout the most originality that any
writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
View quotes by Josh BillingsA genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired
writer of any kind.
View quotes by Samuel ButlerA good
writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
View quotes by Isaac SingerWhen I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a
writer.
View quotes by Isaac SingerThe
writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
View quotes by Susan SontagA word is not the same with one
writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
View quotes by Charles PeguyA
writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
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