Quotes of: Good-writer Keyword

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Michelle Richmond

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

May Sarton

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

Mark Twain

I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

Markus Zusak

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

Nathan Fillion

I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

Nick Flynn

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

Neil Gaiman

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Norman Granz

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Alex Cox

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

Alanis Morissette

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

Alan Moore

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

Quentin Tarantino

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

Eric Morecambe

As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

Will Self

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Mindy Kaling

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Alan Lightman

When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.

Jill Davis

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss