Quotes of: Writer Keyword

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

Anne Lamott

My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

Chuck Palahniuk

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

Cao Yu

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too much.

Hilary Mantel

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

Markus Zusak

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Nora Roberts

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Natasha Trethewey

When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Rick Perlstein

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

Sylvester Stallone

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

Tunde Adebimpe

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Justin Long

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

Hilary Mantel

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Jonathan Coe

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

Julian Casablancas

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.

Nicholaa Spencer

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Ogwo David Emenike

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

Paul Lieberstein

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

Quentin Tarantino

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Rita Mae Brown