Writer Quotes
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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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A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
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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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As the writer of a pseudonymous book, I gave up my own accumulated history as a novelist and became what I had been as a child: unnamed, unidentified, unacknowledged. Invisible. In a very real sense, what I hope for in the process of imagining a book is to disappear.
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
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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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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,' or 'Benjamin Wittes, who wasn't even a lawyer.' Now it's just, like, 'Benjamin Wittes, who's a friend of Jim Comey's.'
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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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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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
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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.
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“If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.”
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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
