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Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.
— Aishah Madadiy
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
— Aminatta Forna
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
— Joanne Harris
I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"
— David Brooks
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
— Haruki Murakami
Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.
2. Write what everyone is trying to write. — Himanshu Chhabra
I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.
— Daniel Handler
Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it
— Barry A. Whittingham
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.
— Daniel Radcliffe
A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.
— Debasish Mridha
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
— Barry Lopez
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
— Jerome Charyn
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
— Sarah Dessen
To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist.
— Adona M. Pierre
It is not up to the writer to create a masterpiece. That is what readers do.
— Bart J. Gilbertson
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
— Fannie Hurst
A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.
— Pamelar Hickinson
I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.
— Christos Tsiolkas
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
— Federico Fellini
Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,
Remember what writer Colin Marshall says: Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide.
— Austin Kleon
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
— Jorge Luis Borges
An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
— John Mortimer
The beauty of my work is that my sets cost nothing. That's what I love about being a writer of novels.
— Markus Zusak
The worst thing about being a writer is having to pretend you know what you're talking about.
— Marty Rubin
A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.
— John Le Carre
I think the best thing about being a writer is getting to dream. It's constantly viewing life through the "what if?" lens.
— Kevin J. Fitzgerald
A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.
— D.A. Botta
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
— Joe Haldeman
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
— Julio Cortazar
What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that's been drawn.
— H.N. Sieverding
A Writer is a Writer, no matter what he(or she) writed
— Gabriella Slade
A Writer is a writer, no matter what s/he writes.
— Gabriella Slade
What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.
— Michael Loceff
My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.
— Jill Soloway
Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
— Peter De Vries
Normally, what you're envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels ... almost nonexistent things.
— James Salter
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
— Mindy Kaling
A writer has some hope even if he is not appreciated. He assumes that his works will bear witness to what he was.
— Albert Camus
Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
— John Osborne
What I'd like to be above all is a writer ...
— Jules Verne
I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.
— Jewel Staite
Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means?
— W. Somerset Maugham
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
— J. C. Chandor
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
— William Gibson
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.
— Diane Mott Davidson
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
— Jason Schwartzman
That's what a writer is -- a conqueror of fears.
— Erica Jong
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.
— Jeff VanderMeer
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
— Chuck Palahniuk
What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?
— David Mitchell
Telling what must not be told is one of the writer's primary tasks. It is also a difficult and dangerous one.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
— Burton Rascoe
She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?
— Nikki Rowe
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
— J.K. Rowling
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
— Patrick Modiano
What will survive of us is love.- from A Writer — Philip Larkin
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.
— Gloria Estefan
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
— Bryce Courtenay
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.
— Jorge Luis Borges
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
— Ralph Steadman
What is a fiction writer after all, but a judge, a dispenser of justice, an arranger of fates, an agent, above all, of moral order?
— Jonathan Dee
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
— William, Saroyan
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
— Burton Rascoe
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
— Thomas Bernhard
I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
— Tawni O'Dell
But what is life without a passion?
— Avijeet Das
