Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

Jonathan Coleman

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity.

Ogwo David Emenike

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

Orhan Pamuk

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

Pat Barker

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

Peter Coyote

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Paul McCartney

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Paul Simon

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

Randy Alcorn

You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.

Rick Aster

My favorite writers have been those who've said things well.

Ray Bradbury

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Roald Dahl

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Robertson Davies

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Richard Ford

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Robert Gottlieb

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Stephen King

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Sinclair Lewis

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Salman Rushdie

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Salman Rushdie

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

Sara Sheridan