Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

What a pleasure it is to be in the company of a writer with enthusiasm for his subject! It doesn't matter what the subject is; I want and ichthyologists to be as committed to fish as Mayor is two prints – to make me think there's nothing more impor...

William Zinsser

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Bob Geldof

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

Burt Lancaster

Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of grass being cut. I find myself sti...

Cricket Heroes: 21 leading writers, members of the Cricket Writers Club, on great cricketers

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a wr...

Summer and the City

...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not ev...

Robert A. Heinlein

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any s...

Theodore Roosevelt

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

George Michael

Even dogs know how important it is to hear somebody else breathing.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

John Krasinski

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

Atlas Shrugged

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

The Host

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure