Quotes of: Writer Keyword

I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around— all sad people write.

Love & Misadventure

He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.

In a Lonely Place

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

The Little Silkworm

I earn my own respect," I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

The Letter Writer

An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an undergraduate, let alone a president with an intern.

Lost for Words

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

The Songlines

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

The Sportswriter

Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.

The Sun Will Still Shine Tomorrow

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

In One Person

...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

Peak

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Travels With Myself

I don't sit on material like a sofa. I also don't sit on material like a sofa. I’m a stand on the couch kind of writer.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

This Book Has No Title

He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic already for the present.

Varamo

For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).

The Valley of Unknowing

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

The Word and the Bomb

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Walden