Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

Daniel Woodrell

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

Daniel Woodrell

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Derek Walcott

One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.

E.A. Bucchianeri

What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.

Elizabeth George

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

Ellen Gallagher

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.

Elizabeth Hernandez

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

Earl King

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

Ben Harper

As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies.

Chris Van Allsburg

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Cassandra Clare

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Garry Hynes

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

Greg Kinnear

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

George Murray

I'm one of those writers who say, 'I've enjoy having written.'

George R. R. Martin

One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

H. G. Bissinger

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

Helen Garner

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Hugh Leonard

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

John McWhorter

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

John Dos Passos

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Jerry Seinfeld