The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
V. S. Naipaul

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
Amy Tan

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.
Andre Gide

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
Amy Tan

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Amy Tan

I think with every writer there are two people there.
Hugh Leonard

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
Charles Caleb Colton

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Joseph Joubert

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I always wanted to be a writer.
Jung Chang

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
Christian Bale

I'm a fast writer.
Terry McMillan

I'm a writer first and a woman after.
Katherine Mansfield