Writer Quotes
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A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"
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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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Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
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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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The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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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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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'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
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Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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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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You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
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I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
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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.
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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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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
