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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

Quote by Robert Frost about literature, writers

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Quote by Karl Kraus about literature, writers

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Quote by Mel Brooks about opinion, writers, ability, talent, human imperfections, being, people

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about literature, poetry, poets, people

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

Quote by Leon Uris about humor, writers

There's one good kind of writer...a dead one.

Quote by James Thomas Farrell about literature, writers, good, good luck

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Quote by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse about success, rules, writers

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

Quote by Sandra Cisneros about opinion, privacy, limits, writers, self-control, work

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about literature, writers, soul, human imperfections

I write what's given me to write.

Quote by Philip Levine about poetry

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way,...

Quote by Haruki Murakami about attitude, miracle, proudness, country, writers, ability, respect

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Quote by Harry S. Truman about books, old, olderness, death

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Quote by Susan Sontag about literature, writers, idea

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature, writers, poets

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature, judges, writers

The writer cannot exist outside of the fortress and mother tongue.

Quote by Vasile Tarateanu about literature, writers, mother

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Quote by Irwin Shaw about writing, writers, common sense, sense

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Quote by Carol Shields about writing, revelation, feelings, writers, mother

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Quote by Toni Cade Bambara about purpose, revolution, writers

The image of a writer builds up as the image of any other brand.

Quote by Radu Voinescu about writers