Writer Quotes
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Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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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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To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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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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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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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'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 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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The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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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.
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That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.
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Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
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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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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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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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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
