Writer Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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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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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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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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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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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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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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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.
