Writer Quotes
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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.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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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.
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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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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.
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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 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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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
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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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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 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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And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
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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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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.
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Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
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To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.
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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.
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I was never a writer.
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When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
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If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.
