Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

Somewhere West of Roads

Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.

Ticket To Hollywood

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

If God inspires your writing, others will know because it will inspire them when they read it.

Unleash the Writer Within

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Jo Nesbo

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one

Jo Linsdell

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

P. L. Travers

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Ray Bradbury

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

Tim LaHaye

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.

Jennifer Westfeldt

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Jennifer Weiner

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

Mehmet Murat ildan

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Maurissa Tancharoen

...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

A Writer's Diary

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

Simon Callow

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

George Lucas

Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

Lisa Scottoline

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Christopher Koch

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Joyce Carol Oates