Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I was thinking: to write and being a writer are two kind of diferrences things. To write is a please. Being a writer is about taking it as a job, as a consequency, as a responsibility. And being a writer is about ENDLESSLY passion. If you don’t lik...

Love

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're l...

Lorrie Moore

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

Christiane Amanpour

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. W...

The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Ana Castillo

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

The Authorship Program

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

Signs of War

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Tim Roth

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

Ma Jian

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Rene Russo

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

Aaron Eckhart

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Kara DioGuardi

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

Joanne Kraft

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

Leadership

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

Donna Tartt

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we ...

remembered rapture: the writer at work