Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

J. Michael Straczynski

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

John Steinbeck

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

John Updike

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

Derek Blasberg

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Deb Caletti

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

David E. Kelley

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

David Mitchell

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

Debasish Mridha

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

Debasish Mridha

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.

Debasish Mridha

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

Jonathan Evison

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Juliana Hatfield

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

Joseph Kanon

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Jim Lynch

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Nawal El Saadawi

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Wislawa Szymborska

The Writer: The kid wasn't sick. The kid wasn't sleeping. The kid was dead.

Stand by Me

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

Stewart O'Nan

There's no such thing as writer's block. I'm brilliant all the time every day. It never stops.

Dave Finkel

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Leslie Fiedler