Writers and Writing Quotes

147 quotations about Writers and Writing
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson · Writers and Writing
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov · Writers and Writing
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach · Writers and Writing
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Walter Bagehot · Writers and Writing
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin · Writers and Writing
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow · Writers and Writing
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley · Writers and Writing
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley · Writers and Writing
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Arnold Bennett · Writers and Writing
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger · Writers and Writing
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Nicholas Boileau · Writers and Writing
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Nicholas Boileau · Writers and Writing
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Christian Nevell Bovee · Writers and Writing
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen · Writers and Writing
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Anita Brookner · Writers and Writing
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning · Writers and Writing
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean De La Bruyere · Writers and Writing
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton · Writers and Writing
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton · Writers and Writing
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Writers and Writing
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote · Writers and Writing
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle · Writers and Writing
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Charles Churchill · Writers and Writing
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Jackie Collins · Writers and Writing
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
James J. Corbett · Writers and Writing

Authors on Writers and Writing

Margaret Anderson Isaac Asimov Richard Bach Walter Bagehot James Baldwin Saul Bellow Robert Benchley Arnold Bennett Thomas Berger Nicholas Boileau Christian Nevell Bovee Catherine Drinker Bowen Anita Brookner Robert Browning Jean De La Bruyere Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Truman Capote Thomas Carlyle Charles Churchill Jackie Collins