Quotes of: Writer Keyword

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

John Connolly

I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

Donald Ray Pollock

i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

Darnell Lamont Walker

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

Ellen Bass

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Eric Brown

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

Emma Donoghue

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

E. M. Forster

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Elizabeth Kostova

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Bob Kane

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, , September 14, 1958)

Bernard Malamud

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Brad Thor

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Barbara Walters

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

A.S. Byatt

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

Crystal Bowersox

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used within a story of a writer.

G.K. Griswold

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

George R.R. Martin

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Graham Swift

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Harlan Coben

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Howard Gordon