Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Susan Sontag

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

Keeley Hawes

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

Rachel Caine

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

Richelle Mead

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

David Lloyd

America takes her writers too seriously.

The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Killosophy

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Killosophy

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

Rainbow - the shades of love

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

In One Person

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

The Wolf Gift

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

War and Peace

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Burt Ward

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

Damien Chazelle

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke