Writer Quotes

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.

My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.

Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan