Quotes of: Writer Keyword

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

Christopher Golden

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

J. K. Rowling

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

Michael Cera

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Mary Karr

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Joan Didion

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Joan Didion

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.

Joel Edgerton

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Joyce Carol Oates

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

James Salter

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Martin Amis

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Robert Harris

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

Kim Cattrall

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

Abbi Jacobson

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Caroline Leavitt

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Katherine Boo

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

E. O. Wilson

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Frank Darabont

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

Frank Delaney