Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

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

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner