Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

John Rhys-Davies

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Jacqueline Susann

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

John Updike

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

James Wolcott

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Colin Wilson

I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'

Diane Mott Davidson

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Diane Mott Davidson

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Diane Duane

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Dorothy Day

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Daniel Gillies

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Dan Harmon

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

Dhanush

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

Debasish Mridha

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Eszterhas

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Jonathan Frakes

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

James Garner

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Jane Gardam

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

Jennifer Hale

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Jim Harrison