Quotes of: Writer Keyword

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Stephen Fry

It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

Stephen King

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Sinclair Lewis

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Salman Rushdie

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Salman Rushdie

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

Sara Sheridan

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

Tracy Chapman

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

Tony Gilroy

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

Terry Pratchett

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Thomas Perry

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

Thelma Ritter

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Tom Robbins

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

Terry Southern

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Joseph Wambaugh

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

Kristin Kreuk

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

Kiefer Sutherland

It's not hard to be a woman in comedy as long as you're also a writer. You have to create your opportunity.

Kristen Schaal

Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream

LaQuita Cameron

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

Leslie Fiedler