Writer Quotes
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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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.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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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.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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A good writer can simulate a page torn out of somebody's diary, and give you every little voyeuristic thrill you might get from that, but actually tell you a broader story. I think it's a noble idea that it's cathartic to open a vein for everybody to see, but ultimately, you're just getting blood everywhere and making a mess. I like the idea that there are deeper and more meaningful things to talk about than your own misery. But at the same time, there's something really interesting about skirting that line and making it seem like you're doing that.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
