Quotes of: Writer Keyword

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

Jami Attenberg

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

Carlton Cuse

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

James Patterson

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

Donna Lynn Hope

The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.

John Gardner

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Jamie L. Harding

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

Anne Rice

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Albert Camus

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

Anamika Mishra

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Life

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Thomas Perry

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

The Adventures of Lily and Leon: A Soppy Fish Tale

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

Scenes from a Writer's Life

Writers turn dreams into print.

Writer's Handbook: Explorations in Writing and Publishing

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

Paula Cole

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

P. J. Harvey

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

Jacqueline Woodson

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Dani Shapiro

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber