Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

Ernest Gaines

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

Elmore Leonard

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

Barry Hannah

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Bill Walsh

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.

Bill Walsh

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Charlotte Bronte

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Charles Bukowski

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

Gavid Hood

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

Garrison Keillor

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Gabrielle Zevin

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.

Helen Dunmore

The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.

Harry Lloyd

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Haruki Murakami

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

Henning Mankell

A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!

Jo Linsdell

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

Janet Maslin

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Jay McInerney

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

Jayne Anne Phillips

When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.

Jolene Purdy