It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O'Connor

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
W. H. Auden

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
Shia LaBeouf

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.
Shel Silverstein

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
Sarah Silverman

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Quentin Crisp

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
Patton Oswalt

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
Alain de Botton