Quotes of: Writers Keyword

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

History of the Rain

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Hyperion

I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.

Just the Way I Feel

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.

Just the Way I Feel

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

Killosophy

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

Selected Essays

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The Marriage Plot

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

Mad River Road

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer.

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.

The Little Book of Muses

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

The Library at Night

Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.

The Little Silkworm

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Snuff

To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.

Sleepwalking is restercise

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God?

Sex, Lies & Religion

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

Prague Tales

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

The Paris Wife

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

The World According to Garp

Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers