Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart. In your writing and your life.

The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

One Writer's Beginnings

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

The Long Goodbye

Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Learn the rules before you break them.

The Writer's Book of Wisdom: 101 Rules for Mastering Your Craft

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

Christopher Paolini

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.

Seamus Heaney

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

Rick Bragg

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

A writer writes regardless... even though... notwithstanding... despite... at any rate... anyhow... nevertheless... in the face of... undeterred by... heedless of... and because. The true writer simply continues to write.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Writers survive within pages. This is a gift from a writer to a reader. Regeneration by pure esoteric thought." - Susan Marie

Susan Marie

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

Sara Sheridan

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

Taylor Hackford

I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.

Tyler Hojberg

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

Kim Edwards

The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.

Martin Amis

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

Marguerite Young

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

Nema Al-Araby