Writer Quotes
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
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That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
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When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
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There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
