Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Lytton Strachey

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

Michael Morpurgo

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.

Marianne Williamson

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Alberto Moravia

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

Earl Hamner, Jr.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Julianna Baggott

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

John Cheever

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Mary Archer

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

Mandy Patinkin

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Christopher Golden

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

J. K. Rowling

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

Michael Cera

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Joan Didion

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Joan Didion