Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Nicolas Berggruen

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Kyle Chandler

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Sam Shepard

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Gloria Steinem

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

Dani Shapiro

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Burton Rascoe

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

Grace Paley

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

J.M. Porup

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.

Debasish Mridha

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

Wole Soyinka

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Jodi Picoult

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

Jack Valenti

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Richard Neal

It may be the optimist in me, but I think America has a uniquely powerful and capacious glue internally. The American identity has always been ethnically and religiously neutral, so within one generation you have Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, C...

Amy Chua

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

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

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know ...

Inkheart

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

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

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

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

Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only can tell, because there will always be better writers...

Neil Gaiman

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ...

A Writer's Diary

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

The Freedom Writers Diary