I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what... →
Gil Scott-Heron
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
Lisa Scottoline
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think... →
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
John Searles
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
W. G. Sebald
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
John Sebastian
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the... →
Lisa See
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer... →
Taiye Selasi
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off.... →