Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

David E. Kelley

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Justin Halpern

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Gaston Bachelard

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

Dwight Yoakam

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Gertrude Stein

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

Jonathan Evison

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

Johnathon Schaech

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

Tibor Kalman

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Peter Carey

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

Dennis Potter

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

John Mortimer

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Eudora Welty

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Corey Feldman

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Carl Hiaasen