Writer Quotes
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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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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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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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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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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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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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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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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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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'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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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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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
