Quotes of: Writer Keyword

I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.

Laurie Graham

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Louis C. K.

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

Lorrie Moore

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Larry Niven

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

Louise Penny

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

Leonard Alfred George Strong

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

Maya Angelou

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Martin Amis

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Michael Cunningham

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

Morley Callaghan

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Mos Def

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

Mia Farrow

No writer can be the ‘Master of the Words’ without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Michael Patrick King

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

Michael Morpurgo

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Richard Powers

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Rod Serling

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.

Ryne Sandberg

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Scott Adsit