We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.
When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.
A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth...
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just...
To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writ...
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed t...
I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which mean...
Everybody is Other in Maupin.
For me, writing was the only way out.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
