Writer Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
-
Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.
-
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.
-
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 want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
-
Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.
-
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
-
I was never a writer.
-
Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
-
If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
-
I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
-
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.
-
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
-
And writing in a foreign language, you come to realise how words create not only a single image but a series of images, so that if the image created in the mind of the writer is different from the image in the mind of the reader, there will not be complete understanding between them.
-
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
-
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
-
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.
-
I really am a very research-oriented writer.
-
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
-
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.
