Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old writer quotes, writer sayings, and writer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.Shel Silverstein
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create itKarl Marx
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What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.Logan Pearsall Smith
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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientistVladimir Nabokov
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.Richard Bach
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.Thomas Mann
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.Jorge Luis Borges
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets hereQuentin Tarantino
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My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.Joni Mitchell
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.Virginia Woolf
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.Toni Morrison
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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.Hunter S. Thompson
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.Ray Bradbury
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.Jules Renard
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To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive.William Zinsser