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.

Read more about Writer.

Famous quotes containing the word writer:

    “The writer studies literature, not the world. ...He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.”
    —Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

    “The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

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