Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Quotes to Explore
-
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk
-
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
-
I am not an autobiographical writer.
Yann Martel
-
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
-
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser
-
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent
-
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
Fran Drescher
-
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul
-
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
-
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor
-
I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
-
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
Rabih Alameddine
-
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey
-
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan
-
I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
M. J. Hyland
-
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
-
I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
-
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards
-
When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
Ilana Glazer
-
I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll ever write.
Michelle Wolf
-
The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
Paul Di Filippo
-
I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.
Damon Galgut
-
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Edgar Allan Poe