Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Elia Kazan

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

Lupe Fiasco

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Paddy Chayefsky

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

1Q84

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Another Man's Moccasins

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Auntie Mame

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

Ashes

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

History of the Rain

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Hyperion

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

Just the Way I Feel

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.

Just the Way I Feel

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Killosophy

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Selected Essays

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The Marriage Plot

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Mad River Road

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

The Little Book of Muses

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

The Library at Night

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.

The Little Silkworm

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Snuff