Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.

Life

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

Life

I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

Life

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

Wendell Berry

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Warren Littlefield

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Walter Smith

Who'd want to be a modernist writer in the English-speaking world?

Will Self

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

Ziad Doueiri

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

Zadie Smith

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Colin Mochrie

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

Hannibal Buress

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Katori Hall

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

Nick Denton

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Paul Simon

It's rare to work on a series without a writer. If you have a question about a line, then phone calls have to be made.

Rebecca Mader

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Stephen Kinzer

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Salman Rushdie

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

Laila Robins

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

Tracy Pollan