I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson Davies

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Talcott Parsons

I always wanted to be a writer.
Jung Chang

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
Orson Scott Card

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Orson Scott Card

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson

I'm a fast writer.
Terry McMillan

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Aaron Eckhart

It's okay to be a bad writer if you have something to say.
Bill Stott

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
Harold Pinter

I don't call myself a writer.
Bruce Boxleitner

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Cyril Connolly

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
James T. Farrell

I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.
Jonathan Carroll