Writer Quotes
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The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
William Faulkner
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I'm an accidental writer.
William P. Young
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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
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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.
Michael Emerson
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
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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.
Walt Whitman
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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
Bradley Sands
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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.
William Faulkner
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I really am a very research-oriented writer.
Eric Kripke
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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.
Elizabeth Riddell
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Erwin McManus
