Writer Quotes
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You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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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.
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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
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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.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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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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It’s just that everything is so . . . unreliable lately.” “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water,” he said. “Is that a quote?” He nodded. “Rabindranath Tagore. He’s a great writer. You should read him.
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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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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.
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What no wife of a writer can ever understand...is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
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I never set out to be a published writer.
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A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
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Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.
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I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.
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A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
