But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
William Bernbach

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Roald Dahl

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
Roald Dahl

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
Roald Dahl

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
Roald Dahl

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

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor