Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Carol-Anne, American Goddess: The thing that's gonna make it more crowded? Harriet. Jeannie, American Angel: Oh, Harriet! Carol-Anne, American Goddess: You haven't met Harriet. Colin: There's a fourth one? Carol-Anne, American Goddess, Jeannie, Amer...

Love Actually

I don't have a problem with these Arizona laws. I have a problem with Chicano, Gay and Lesbian, Asian-American and African-American histories not being taught in American History courses.

M.G. Hardie

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

Don Lemon

Nathan Landau: On this bridge on which so many great Americans writers stood and reached out for words to give America its voice... looking toward the land that gave them Whitman... from its Eastern edge dreamt his country's future and gave it words....

Sophie's Choice

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

The Adventures of Lily and Leon: A Soppy Fish Tale

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Scenes from a Writer's Life

Writers turn dreams into print.

Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

Paula Cole

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

P. J. Harvey

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Jacqueline Woodson

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Dani Shapiro

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Adam McKay

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

Guy Johnson

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Tucker Max

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

Andrew Pyper

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Fiona Shaw

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Dan Simmons

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

Eugene Ionesco