The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Ralph Steadman
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
Karrine Steffans
I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is... →
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder telling me how to act, so I... →
Shoshannah Stern
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens