Quotes of: Writer Keyword

No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'

Anthony Horowitz

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

Antonio Munoz Molina

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Andrew O'Hagan

Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no going back.

A.D. Posey

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Anne Rice

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

Amy Tan

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Alice Walker

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

Sara Sheridan

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Sara Sheridan

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.

Love

Everybody wants to be part of a success story, But no one want to be the writer of this story.

Life

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

Love

Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.

Love

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V. S. Naipaul

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

W. H. Auden

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.

Walter Kirn

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.

William Saroyan

Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

Y.S. Lee

I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

Zia Haider Rahman