Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Jacques Barzun

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

James Henry Breasted

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Jennifer Beals

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

John Banville

A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

Jorge Luis Borges

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

John Cleese

(M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

Dennis McFadden

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Diane Setterfield

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.

Darnell Lamont Walker

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Elizabeth Bowen

As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.

Eric Jerome Dickey

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Ellie Goulding

Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Ernest Hemingway

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Ernest Hemingway

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Erica Jong

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

Erica Jong

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Evangeline Lilly

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

Bella Freud

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

Bill Griffith

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

Barry Levinson