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Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.
There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
Some writers dug their graves with their own pens
A writer is a word trapped in a person.
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.
somewhere in the night someone was writing
Writers who don't produce copy - or leave it so long that they couldn't possibly produce something good - are giving themselves the perfect excuse for not succeeding.
These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.
Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, 'Aha, here is the story.'
I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!'
Writers are archeologists of themselves.
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
A writer is a messenger for the subconscious.
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
A writer's job is never finished.
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.
When you write books for a living, you come to realize that while not all people who write to authors are strange, all people who are strange write to authors.
The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an 'injustice collector' and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.
Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That man's pen and legacy is without question.
A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.
Writer's Block: making authors miserable since the Stone Age.
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
Good writers are visible just behind their words.
As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
If I'm not a writer, who am I?
Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.
Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover.
Writing is a lonely business.
The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
The only good writer was a dead writer.
Writers write because they're writers.
Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers that write at all.
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
Most of our writers tend to be recorders.
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.
Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing
Writers are engineers of human souls.
There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.
You are a writer when you can't not write.
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.
The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,
Writers are so important.
Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
I think with every writer there are two people there.
Writers who learn to leave holes in manuscripts to be filled later master valuable skills in writing: they learn to proceed amid ambiguity and uncertainty
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
I am not a writer except when I write.
Writers need each other.
What do writers look like?
A writer always writes.
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
You have seven writers in your basement?"
Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer ... They don't usually make much trouble.
Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
Writing all day every day is good, but it's not good enough. You need to have your clone ghostwriting for you too.
Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration ...
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
The writer is the person who stays in the room.