Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

Steve Toltz

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

Tanith Lee

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

Chris Cornell

Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

Juanes

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Salman Rushdie

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

Janet Evanovich

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

Lisa Scottoline

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

Colson Whitehead

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Winona Ryder

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

Richard Russo

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Alain de Botton

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

Alvin Dark

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

Andrew Davies

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

Anne-Marie Duff

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.

Anthony Doerr

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Anne Enright

All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

Anatole France

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

Anthony Geary

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Anthony Horowitz

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Alexander McCall Smith