Writer Quotes
-
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
-
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
-
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
-
The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
-
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
-
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
-
I really am a very research-oriented writer.
-
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.
-
As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.
-
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
-
If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,' or 'Benjamin Wittes, who wasn't even a lawyer.' Now it's just, like, 'Benjamin Wittes, who's a friend of Jim Comey's.'
-
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
-
For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
-
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."
-
I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
-
There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
-
I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
-
I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
-
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I always did. And then I started to really enjoy it.
-
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
