Quotes about Writer
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
— Ernest Hemingway
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
— Ernest Hemingway
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
— Maya Angelou
A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.
— Joseph Brodsky
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
— Joseph Brodsky
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
— John Piper
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
— Mark Twain
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
— Nikki Giovanni
When one of England's finest writers, G. K. Chesterton, spoke of "the furious love of God," he was referencing the enormous vitality and strength of the God of Jesus seeking union with us.
— Brennan Manning
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
— Ayn Rand