Writer Quotes
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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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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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
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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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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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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 was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
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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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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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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 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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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 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 a very conceptual writer.
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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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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The real writer is one who really writes.
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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.
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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'm a writer first and a singer second.
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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'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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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.
