Writer Quotes
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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Nobody's safe around a writer.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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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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[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 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.
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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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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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Being pro-life is an essential part of being 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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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
