Writer Quotes
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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you - and if you don't, nobody can help you.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
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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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My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.
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I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.
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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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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
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That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
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Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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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 firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.
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I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.
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If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.
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If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.
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Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.
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The writer must resist this temptation to quote and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.
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I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
