Quotes of: Writer Keyword

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

P.D. James

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Paul de Man

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

Paul Muni

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

P.J. O'Rourke

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Patti Smith

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

Penelope Spheeris

'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

P. J. Soles

There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!

Phil Wohl

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Roseanne Barr

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.

Robert Black

Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Robert Cormier

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

Raymond Chandler

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Robertson Davies

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Robert Frost

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

Richelle E. Goodrich

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

Robert Hass

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Robert Klein

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

Sean Hayes