Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

Will Self

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Mindy Kaling

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Alan Lightman

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

Jill Davis

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Salman Rushdie

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

T Bone Burnett

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

Barbara Kingsolver

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

John Updike

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scott Westerfeld

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Cat Stevens

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Jose Saramago

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Corin Nemec

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Jeff Daniels

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Joyce Carol Oates