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Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told. — Ana Patrick
My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin. — Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work. — John Hughes
Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more — Ursula K. Le Guin
Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears. — Sheila Heti
You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink. — G.K. Chesterton
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that ma — H. Raven Rose
There is a curious idea among unscientific men that in scientific writing there is a common plateau of perfectionism. No — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, — Robert Hass
Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where th — Mavis Cheek
A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers. — K. Sean Harris
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez
But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and mus — T.C. Boyle, When the Killing's Done
Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with — Jyoti Arora
I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that’s why I like flash fiction, it’s a lot like using a shotgun. — Neil Leckman
Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity. — Coco J. Ginger
Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know — Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attentio — Lisa Cron, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence