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... →
Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of... →
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.
Aleksandar Hemon
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Donal Henahan
When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.
Jill Hennessy
I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural... →
James Herbert
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.