Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with...

Lori Goodwin

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a ...

Garth Stein

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

Haruki Murakami

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find tha...

Jim Rash

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any ...

Audre Lorde

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the on...

Neil Gaiman

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Raymond Chandler

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

Regina Brett

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Troian Bellisario

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

Vanessa Marano

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Moby

The greatest writers have persistence.

Work

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Wilfrid Sheed

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Kent McCord

A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children's Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.

Patricia MacLachlan