Writer Quotes
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There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
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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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Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.
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I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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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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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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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 don't know if I want to be a writer.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.
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I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
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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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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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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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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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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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“Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.
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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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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 do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.
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Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
