Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Jose Saramago

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

Natalie Dormer

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.

Paul Lieberstein

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Raymond Carver

Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.

Deaths For The Ladies

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Jess Walter

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

Nicholas Stoller

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

Oriana Fallaci

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

Piers Anthony

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Peter Bichsel

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Paulo Coelho

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

Paul Harding

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Paul McCartney

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Philip Pullman

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Patricia C. Wrede

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

Rachel Cusk

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

Roman Coppola

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

Ronald Frame

I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.

Richard Flanagan

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

Robert Galbraith

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

Robert Harris