Quotes About Writer

As a writer, have faith in your unconscious mind. Unbeknownst to you, it will guide your story, make connections, and weave the tale for you

Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.

Without conflict, there is no story. Without a story, there is no novel--only the author's self-indulgent musings.

As a writer you have as many bosses as you have readers...though in the end, you must answer to yourself.

The greatest act of self-education I've ever undertaken has been to become a writer.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

When I hear about some sensational new writer I sort of think, Shut up ... you've got to be around for a long time before you can really say you're a writer. You've got to stand the test of time, which is the only real test there is.

God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.

Leser und Schreiber sind also uneinverstandene Leute. Leute, die sich nicht abgefunden haben. Noch nicht. Hätten sie sich abgefunden, wären sie zufrieden mit sich und allem, würden sie nicht mehr lesen und schreiben, sondern gingen andauernd in die Oper.

I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Hardison held up a gigantic bag that Parker could have used as a dress. "I picked up all sorts of things," he said with a smile. "I grabbed the entire run of Chew, and I savaged the first trade paperback for the Magic: The Gathering comic, signed by the writer, no less.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer of all time. He has a mediocre 3.7 average on Goodreads.

The notion of characters, as the traditional form of the novel, is only one of the compromises by which the writer, drawn out of himself by literature in search of its essence, tries to salvage his relations with the world and himself.

Kafka remarks, with surprise, with enchantment, that he has entered into literature as soon as he can substitute "He" for "I." This is true, but the transformation is much more profound. The writer belongs to a language which no one speaks, which is addressed to no one, which has no center, and which reveals nothing.