Quotes of: Writer Keyword

If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

Write like no one is reading 2

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Write like no one is reading

I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

On Writing

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

There’s really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Dermot Healy

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hope...

D. J. MacHale

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

Garth Brooks

Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

Garth Brooks

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thril...

Jo Nesbo

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to ...

James Wolcott

I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You h...

Liane Balaban

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Linwood Barclay

Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like.

Matt Dillon

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

Roger Corman

The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, ...

George Dzundza

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

Mary Oliver