Writer Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Writer Quotes
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“Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page (Regina Brett has written regular columns for 2 Ohio papers).”
Regina Brett Quotes
“My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures (re descriptions in Uncle Tom's Cabin).”
Louisa Mae Alcott Quotes
“Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.”
James T. Farrell Quotes
“Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.”
Sinclair Lewis Quotes
“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”
Anatole France Quotes
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“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 Quotes
“To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...”
Paul Acquasanta Quotes