One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
Joy Williams
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This... →
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if... →
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
Terry Tempest Williams
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Walter Jon Williams
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
Marianne Williamson
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.
Colin Wilson
If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.