Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

Evangeline Lilly

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.

Gillian Alexy

One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

George R. R. Martin

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Joseph O'Neill

I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.

John Searles

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

Elliot Perlman

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

E. B. White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Edmund White

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

Charlaine Harris

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Carla H. Krueger

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

China Mieville

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

Christopher McQuarrie

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

Colleen McCullough

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Carl Reiner

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.

Isaac Asimov

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Italo Calvino

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Irwin Shaw

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

Irwin Shaw