Writer Quotes

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

True, Task, Function

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

God, Business, Book

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
Neil Gaiman

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Isadora Duncan

Experience, Writing, Matter

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
Hugh Leonard

Difficult, Grief, Observing

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Stephen Sondheim

Feels, Fraudulent, Spoken

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.
Kristen Stewart

Off, College, Awesome

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
Doris Lessing

Love, Away, Idea

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
Doris Lessing

Today, Hard, Young

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Paul Valery

Mistaken, Impeccable, Poe

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
Thornton Wilder

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
Alan Alda

Work, True, Personal

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
Joan Didion

Life, Lead, Source

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Great, Government, Country

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
Bruce Springsteen

Good, Care, Job

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Ezra Pound

Work, Writing, Criticism

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
Lena Dunham

Nature, Thought, Comedy

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James

Love, Himself, Hold

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.
Diablo Cody

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
Diablo Cody

Hope, Find, Possible

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
Diablo Cody

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Marcel Achard

Money, Woman, Career

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

Live, Cannot, Able

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa

Good, Help, Cannot

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Lie, Three, Witty

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.
Ellie Goulding

Emotional, Human, Afraid

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Good, Home

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather

Age, Before, Works

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

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