Writer Quotes
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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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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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I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It was easy, it wasn't easy to do, but I fell into it. I made a living as an actor for a long time, but I didn't think of myself as an actor, I thought I was 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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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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Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
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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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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
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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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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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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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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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The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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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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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 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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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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By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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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.
