Definition of Writer

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Writer

One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

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Writer Quotations

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost

Writer Translations

writer in Afrikaans is skrywer
writer in Danish is forfatter
writer in Dutch is auteur, schrijver, stilist
writer in German is Autor {m}, Schreiber, Schriftsteller
writer in Italian is quattrocentista, autore
writer in Latin is scriptor
writer in Portuguese is escritor
writer in Spanish is escritor

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