Writer Quotes
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
Dan Poynter -
Literary theories will not make a writer write.
Allen Wier
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The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'
Michael Jackson -
I never intended to become a writer.
Richard Selzer -
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 -
If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
Robert Frost -
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 -
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
Elena Ferrante
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan -
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
Wallace Thurman -
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 -
As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
Winnie Holzman -
Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
Coco J. Ginger -
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.
Anne Bernays
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I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Joseph O'Neill -
There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write a great novel. If I had lived the lives of all the characters of the songs I've written, that would truly be an extraordinary story.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
My idea of teaching literature is just to read great passages aloud or to look at it the way a writer does, which is what I try to do. Which is to say, 'How does this writer do this? How did he order his scenes? Do you notice any pattern to his sentences?'
Ethan Canin -
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Marcel Proust -
A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.
Brendan Kennelly -
One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.
Joy Williams
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I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.
David Mandel -
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
William Faulkner -
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
Wallace Stegner -
If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.
Scott Cohen