A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
Todor Zhivkov

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C. S. Forester

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
Jean de la Bruyere

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
J. B. Priestley

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
Arthur Koestler

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw

A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.
Jason Zebehazy

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Richard Steele

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
Leo Rosten

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
Len Wein

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.
Pia Zadora

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Norman MacCaig

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
Jessica Savitch

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray

Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says.
John Harvey Kellogg

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Frederick Jackson Turner

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Henry Ellis

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse