Writers Quotes
Quotes about Writers
19 quotes
- “It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scrivener...” — William Browning Spencer
- “Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.” — Graeme Roberts
- “I am what libraries and librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.” — B. K. Sandwell
- “A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right.” — John K. Hutchens
- “Self-expression is for babies and seals where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.” — Vincent Mchugh
- “I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.” — A. J. Liebling
- “Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're right.” — Buffy Andrews
- “Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.” — John Hersey
- “The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.” — Susie Orbach
- “Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.” — Fannie Hurst
- “Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.” — Henry Herbert
- “Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.” — Henry Vaughan
- “The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.” — Ethel Wilson
- “An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.” — Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
- “(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.” — Mary Heaton Worse
- “Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.” — Rachel Thompson
- “Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons he would lose his angels.” — Dakin Williams
- “No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer” — Michael Lennick
- “He claimed his modest share of the general foolishness of the human race.” — Irving Howe