Writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces nonfictional writing or literary art such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, or essays—especially someone who writes professionally.

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Famous quotes containing the word writer:

    “If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)

    “The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”
    —Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)