Writer Quotes
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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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The writer studies literature, not the world.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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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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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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The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
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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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As a writer, the most important thing for me is to continue to write, no matter where I am.
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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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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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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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You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has. Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes. The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest.
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A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
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Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
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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.
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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill your agent.
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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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I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
