Writer Quotes
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.
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I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
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I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.
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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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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
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I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.
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You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
