Writers Quotes

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
Dean Koontz

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Ray Bradbury

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Charles Peguy

I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Elmore Leonard

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer