Quotes of: Writers Keyword

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

Adam McKay

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

Guy Johnson

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

Tucker Max

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

Andrew Pyper

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

Fiona Shaw

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

Dan Simmons

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

Eugene Ionesco

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Candace Bushnell

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

Walter Mosley

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

Andrea Hirata

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Philip Roth

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

Robert Morgan

Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Be...

The Faraway Nearby

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, ...

Misery

Bestseller doesn’t necessarily mean good writer. I think it takes 10,000 book sales to make the bestseller’s list, and at about 9 dollars a pop for my book, if I had an extra $90,000 dollars of disposable income, I’d be a bestseller tomorrow. B...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him...A person is a fool to become a wr...

Roald Dahl

It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may...

Sara Sheridan

Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read what is being written now, but if that is all you rea...

Theodora Goss

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of ...

Mario Vargas Llosa

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to g...

James A. Michener

A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are go...

Ama H.Vanniarachchy