Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Joel Edgerton

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Joyce Carol Oates

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

James Salter

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Martin Amis

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Robert Harris

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

Kim Cattrall

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

Abbi Jacobson

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Caroline Leavitt

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Katherine Boo

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

E. O. Wilson

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Frank Darabont

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

Frank Delaney

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Fannie Hurst

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Franklin P. Jones

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

Fran Lebowitz

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Flannery O'Connor

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

George Clooney

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Cary Fukunaga

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Charlie Hunnam