Writer Quotes
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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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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I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.
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Each time a writer or an artist 'tells' the world in an ever so slightly new fashion, it is changed.
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Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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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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The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
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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 true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
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The writer must proudly consent to bear his own date, knowing that there are no masterpieces in eternity, but only works in history, and that they survive only to the degree that they have left the past behind them and heralded the future.
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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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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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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.
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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
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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.
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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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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
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As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.
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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
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Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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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!!
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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.
