Writer Quotes
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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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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.'
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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'.
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
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I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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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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Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
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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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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.
