Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Amy Tan

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

Dani Shapiro

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Noah Baumbach

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Henry James

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Lincoln Child

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Florence King

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Carlos Fuentes

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Conrad Hall

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

Carla H. Krueger

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.

Catherine McCormack

A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!

Christie Silvers

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

Ilana Glazer

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

Irwin Shaw

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Irwin Shaw

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

Irwin Shaw

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

John Barton

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Dan Simmons