Quotes of: Writers Keyword

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

Rainbow - the shades of love

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

In One Person

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

The Wolf Gift

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

War and Peace

Every book I've read appears in my writing.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Burt Ward

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

Damien Chazelle

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Jose Saramago

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

Natalie Dormer

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets.

Paul Lieberstein

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Raymond Carver

Let every writer tell his own lies That's freedom of the press.

Deaths For The Ladies

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Jess Walter

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Nicole Ari Parker

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

Nicholas Stoller

I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.

Oriana Fallaci