Quotes of: Writers Keyword

A true writer cuts their heart open and bleeds all over the page...

The Eyes of Alexander

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Essays of Three Decades

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

A Familiar Rain

...is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?...

A Familiar Rain

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

By Blood We Live

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

John Boyne

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

Lytton Strachey

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

Ellen DeGeneres

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

Jewel Staite

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Robert E. Howard

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Horseradish

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Ilustrado

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The Singing Detective

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Landmarks in French Literature

How become a writer? Naturally.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Pearls are a Nuisance

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.

Twitch

There is always, always, always something to write about.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers