Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

Anton Corbijn

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

Annie Dillard

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

Ariel Dorfman

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Aldous Huxley

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Aleksandar Hemon

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Andre Dubus III

Be careful what you say and do around a writer. Your words and actions may become material.

A.D. Posey

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

Bryan Burrough

A writer is never just looking out of a window or staring into space. They are building a universe to share with the world

Brenda Ashworth Barry

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

Samuel R. Delany

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

Timothy West

If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.

Tom Wolfe

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Love

I’m a writer,” she declared before she drained the glass. “I should learn about everything.

Love

Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.

Life

Through the act of writing, a writer learns more about himself than he could ever imagine.

Life

The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.

Life

If the voices in your head make you cry, you're a lunatic. Put their words on paper, and you're a writer.

Love

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

Van Wyck Brooks

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V. S. Naipaul