Top Writer Quotes
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Ricky Martin
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
Neil Gaiman
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill 
80% of people like this quote
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
76% of people like this quote
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
72% of people like this quote
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Ricky Martin
71% of people like this quote
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
Neil Gaiman
70% of people like this quote
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Brian Lumley
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Robertson Davies
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx
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