Quotes of: Writer Keyword

I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you c...

Julie Ann Dawson

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man ca...

Arthur Hailey

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way. Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our curre...

Life

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn on...

William Faulkner

What a pleasure it is to be in the company of a writer with enthusiasm for his subject! It doesn't matter what the subject is; I want and ichthyologists to be as committed to fish as Mayor is two prints – to make me think there's nothing more impor...

William Zinsser

Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of grass being cut. I find myself sti...

Cricket Heroes: 21 leading writers, members of the Cricket Writers Club, on great cricketers

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a wr...

Summer and the City

...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not ev...

Robert A. Heinlein

Even dogs know how important it is to hear somebody else breathing.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

John Krasinski

A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

Atlas Shrugged

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

The Host

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure