Writer Quotes
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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you - and if you don't, nobody can help you.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
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The main thing that drew me to him was that he was a beautiful writer, not just the clarity but the aptness of expression.
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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.
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I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
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A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
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A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
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To my mind, it’s one of the deepest gratifications the poet or fiction writer knows. I mean, the internal stumbling upon some satisfactory answer to the question, What is this like? Or, What does this remind me of? A comparison is laboriously but successfully introduced. You meet your metaphor, and it’s good.
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With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
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When we first started touring after the release of 'On Through the Night', a lot of people kept calling us a 'punk' band. Obviously they never saw us. Evidently, a paper would assign a writer to cover the show, and the guy would unload his ticket for a few quid, go home and write the review anyway. They all called us 'punk,' because the name sounded that way.
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
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A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not to hang around waiting for it. Inspiration is merely a pretty phrase for the zest to work. And it can be cultivated by anyone who has the patience to try. Inspiration that will not come at its possessor's summons is like a dog that cannot be trained to obey. The sooner both are gotten rid of, the better.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.
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I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
