Writer Quotes
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I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.
Winnie Holzman
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Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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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.
Suzan-Lori Parks
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When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.
Hannes Holm
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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.
Charles Nodier
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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
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I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.
Nicola Griffith
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I feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to a dramaturg about, you know, the culture, but also what I'm trying to do as a writer in this particular play. You know, you have to protect yourself too.
Nilo Cruz
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You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.
Regina Spektor
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Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.
Rene Char
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.
Uzodinma Iweala
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I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
Harry Treadaway
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I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
Ree Drummond
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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.
Ismail Kadare
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A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
Len Wein
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My impression of him, and the impressions of everyone in the office, was he is a very fine lawyer, a very hard worker, a beautiful writer and absolutely, meticulously objective.
Charles Fried
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My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
Sarah Dessen
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A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!
Anamika Mishra
