Writer Quotes
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
Dennis Cooper
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
Walter Kirn
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
Carine Roitfeld
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. Milne
There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
Walter Mosley
The real writer is one who really writes.
Marge Piercy
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
Macaulay Culkin
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
P. J. Harvey
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
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.
Elizabeth Gaskell
If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
Zadie Smith
I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
Karen Robards
