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:

    “I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects.... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that [my children] should be bred up in it too.”
    —William Cobbett (1762–1835)

    “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 always a bloody owl.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)