Writer Quotes
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
Lana Del Rey -
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Orhan Pamuk
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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
Joy Williams -
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
Epictetus -
Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
Elia Kazan -
It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
Gary David Goldberg -
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo -
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Irina Shayk
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino -
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
Vera Brittain -
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
Omari Hardwick -
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.
Thomas Carlyle -
I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
Orhan Pamuk
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
Walter Jon Williams -
There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer
Allison Mackie -
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
P. L. Travers -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Carl Hiaasen -
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could come with her if I wanted to. We were married at the time, so I chose to come with her.
Brad Feld
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
James Garner -
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.
Linda Ronstadt -
I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll ever write.
Michelle Wolf -
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
Bienvenido Lumbera