Writer Quotes
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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To be a writer and political is a dangerous thing. To be a writer and apolitical is even more dangerous. Art is right, left; in truth, it has only one direction and that is forward.
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The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family would sort of get angry, like not understand.
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My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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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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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
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A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
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I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.
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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
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A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
