Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.

Mary Stuart Masterson

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Powers

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

Roman Payne

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

Robert Webb

An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.

Shannon L. Alder

If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.

Shannon L. Alder

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals.

Steven Bochco

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Sandra Cisneros

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Sloane Crosley

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

Stephen J. Cannell

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

Marty Rubin

When people talk to themselves they should listen more. That's how writers are born.

Marty Rubin

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Maggie Smith

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

Maggie Stiefvater

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

Mo Yan

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.

Nicohle Christopherson