Quotes about Writers, page 4

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner about writers

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

Quote by Robert Frost about writers

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

Quote by Karl Kraus about 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 writers

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Quote by Nathalie Sarraute about writers

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 writers

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Quote by Edna Ferber about writers

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Quote by Edna Ferber about writers

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

Quote by James Thomas Farrell about writers

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 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 writers

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Quote by Iosif Vissarionovici Stalin about writers

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 writers

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Quote by Susan Sontag about writers

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

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about writers

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about writers

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about writers

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

Quote by Vasile Tarateanu about writers

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Quote by Irwin Shaw about writers

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 writers