Writer Quotes
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable.
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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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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
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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.
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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.
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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?'
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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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We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?
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I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.
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The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
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I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
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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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I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.
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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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I do find that people are incredibly naive about what it is to be a writer. Like you would pay an incredible amount of money for an MFA program and still not have the slightest idea of how one goes about becoming a writer. So, I'm always flabbergasted when people say, "Oh, I was invited to do a reading, but I'm not going to read because I don't have a book.".
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.
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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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The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of.
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
