Writer Quotes

• I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

  

  Esther Renay Dean
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Songs

• Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Present
  • Writer
  • Role

• You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.

  

  Nick Laird
  • Alone
  • Writer
  • Room

• I never intended to become a writer.

  

  Richard Selzer
  • Writer
  • Become
  • Intended

• I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Writer
  • Producer
  • Jockey

• I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

  

  Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Idea
  • Writer
  • Graft

• Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

  

  Neal Brennan
  • Comedy
  • Unique
  • Robert Smigel

• I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Goals
  • Writer
  • Sentence

• If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writer
  • Cry
  • Reader

• Amy Schumer is a really, really hilarious writer. She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Senses

• John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Light
  • Sensation
  • Illuminates

• Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Freedom
  • Businessman
  • Talker

• The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Language
  • Inspiration
  • Innocent

• A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Creative
  • Memory
  • Writer

• As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

  

  Adam Haslett
  • Job
  • Reader
  • Dwell

• Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Child
  • French
  • Talents

• We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Artist
  • Writer
  • Deceived

• If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

  

  Eric Bentley
  • Theatre
  • Image
  • Translated

• He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Writer
  • License
  • Revoked

• I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Born
  • Writer
  • Thinker

• Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

  

  Bert Sugar
  • Writer
  • Critics
  • Dogs

• Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Writer
  • Years Ago
  • The New Yorker

• A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Keys
  • Notes
  • Typewriter

• As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

  

  Andrew Shaffer
  • Depression
  • Writer
  • Output

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