Writer Quotes
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I'm not a writer. I haven't written anything.
Emma Stone -
I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
Brian Christian
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King -
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.
Niall Williams -
For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
Peter Stone -
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."
Judy Blume -
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
Haruki Murakami -
I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
Harry Dean Stanton
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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.
Eyvind Johnson -
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.
Elena Ferrante -
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.
Sarah Pinborough -
As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books are so important. As a pastor, though, I can be a part of creating the change the world so desperately needs.
Erwin McManus -
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.
William Faulkner -
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
Paul Lieberstein
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
Jules Verne -
I was never a writer.
Simon Sinek -
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
Eugene Delacroix -
I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
Simon Mawer -
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.
Wil Haygood
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami -
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
Michael Emerson -
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.
Noy Holland