Writer Quotes
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What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
Cameron Crowe -
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
William Faulkner
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I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
Marianne Williamson -
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards -
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
Dan Simmons -
I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
Jenny Mollen -
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
Harlan Coben -
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
Steven Spielberg
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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.
R. A. Salvatore -
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
S. E. Hinton -
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
Walter Jon Williams -
I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
Tatiana de Rosnay -
I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
Cameron Dokey -
A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
Laura Moser
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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.
Laila Robins -
Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
S. E. Hinton -
It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
Donald Miller -
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.
Hallie Ephron -
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
Taiye Selasi -
If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
Zadie Smith
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One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.
H. G. Bissinger -
I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
Leon Uris