A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.
I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I'd offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided tha...
Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also ...
There are writers who write for fame. And there are writers who write because we need to make sense of the world we live in; writing is a way to clarify, to interpret, to reinvent. We may want our work to be recognized, but that is not the reason we ...
When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.
A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth...
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need to tell the reader everything. But one hopes that the writer's belief in his characters is evident in the telling, just...
To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writ...
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed t...
