Writer Quotes
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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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I'm an accidental writer.
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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
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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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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
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I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams and kept them all in a notebook that I still have.
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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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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
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For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
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Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.
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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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I really am a very research-oriented writer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader's eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.
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For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
