Quotes of: Writer Keyword

Like every writer, I'm drawn by unlikely juxtapositions, precisely-dated and once-only collisions between people from different worlds.

Hilary Mantel

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful

Lee Bice-Matheson

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Leonard Cohen

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Naguib Mahfouz

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

Justin Cronin

I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.

Nasim Pedrad

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

Neil Postman

'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Nic Pizzolatto

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

Nora Roberts

She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?

Nikki Rowe

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.

Nick Tosches

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Orson Scott Card

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Orson Scott Card

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

Orson Scott Card

My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.

Psalms 45 1

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Peter Benchley

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

Poppy Z. Brite

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Patrick Dempsey

Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

Pamela Erens

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Paul Di Filippo

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

Paul Harris