2,612 Quotes About Writers

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Imagination is the greatest solitude

I can’t help but to wonder with my thoughts.

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.