I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Jeanette Winterson

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler

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

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow

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

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

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

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

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.
Jennifer Lopez

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

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

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
Martin C. Smith

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
Martin C. Smith

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Joseph Brodsky

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

So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.
Neil Gaiman

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
Neil Gaiman

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
Neil Gaiman

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
Jerzy Kosinski