Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Hipolito, The Writer: Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.

Amélie

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Al Alvarez

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Alan Furst

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Alan Dean Foster

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

Andrea Hirata

The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.

Andrew McEwan

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

Arthur Smith

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

Andrzej Wajda

There are two kinds of writers; those that make you think and those that make you wonder.

Brian W. Aldiss

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

Brian Baumgartner

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Emma Donoghue

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

Samuel R. Delany

A writer's mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.

Life

If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.

Love

no one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself.

Life

Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.

Life

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

V. S. Naipaul

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

William Saroyan

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

Walter Jon Williams