Writer Quotes
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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 writer. I'm not an actress.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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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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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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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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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is 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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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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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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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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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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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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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
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If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
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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.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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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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My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
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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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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
