Writer Quotes
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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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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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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 don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.
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I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.
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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'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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I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
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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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I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
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It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.
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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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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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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
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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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I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.
