Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.

Nicholas Sparks

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Patton Oswalt

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

Steven Cojocaru

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

Sheri S. Tepper

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

Ted Kotcheff

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

V. S. Naipaul

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

Vikram Seth

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Yann Martel

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

William S. Burroughs

I have to believe SF writers will continue to inspire the public to have faith in - to demand! - a future that is at least as big and bold as the past.

Edward M. Lerner

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

Russell Smith

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

Mindy Kaling

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.

Nick Cave

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Felix Adler

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Jean Stafford

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Michel Houellebecq

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.

Peter Gould

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Alfred Kazin