Writer Quotes
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I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.
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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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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
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Nobody's safe around a writer.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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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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Believe it or not, in 1969 the French writer Georges Perec wrote a palindromic story that was 500 words long! The whole story reads the same backwards as forwards.
