Writer Quotes
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.
Denise Duhamel
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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.
Bonnie McFarlane
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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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I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
Amy Lee
Evanescence
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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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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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I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.
Joshua Slocum
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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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I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
Flannery O'Connor
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
Johnathon Schaech
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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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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.
Bernice Rubens
