Writer Quotes
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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.
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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.
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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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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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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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.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
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There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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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.
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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.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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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.
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Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
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If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
