#writers

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. ↗

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

#writing #writing-life #art

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone. ↗

— John Cheever

#alone

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.
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— Jarod Kintz

#impact #write #writers #writing #career

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#reading #writers #read

If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. ↗

— Helene Hanff

#debt #england #kiss #please #writers

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#literature

...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while... ↗

— John Geddes

#twitter-quotes #wisdom-quote #writer #writer-s-block #writers-quotes

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot. ↗

— Brad Thor

#hit #lives #never #spot #their

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#economically #harnessed #how #large #living