Writer Quotes
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It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
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When a novelist has “something to say,” they mean a message. It has political connotations, or a religious message, or a moral prescription. It means “commitment,” as used by Sartre and other fellow-travelers. They are saying that the writer has a world view, a sort of truth that he wishes to communicate, and that his writing has an ulterior significance. I am against this.
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As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
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In other words, the cultural education of any high-school student should include an introduction to the idea that a writer adapts his writing to ever-changing expressive needs and that a higher or lower note doesn't mean that the singer has changed.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
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For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
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As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.
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It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's still just as many unemployed people in Hollywood as there ever has been, but there's so many more avenues to sell things, because of digital, and Amazon, and Netflix, and all these different platforms. That's crazy and exciting in a creative way, and we'll see where that all stands five years from now. But on the corporate side, I still see that pendulum swinging back in that other direction, which is a little not comforting.
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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
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I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
