Quotes of: Writers Keyword

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Peter Carey

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

Dennis Potter

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

John Mortimer

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Eudora Welty

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Corey Feldman

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Carl Hiaasen

The writer dreams awake. The killer nightmares awake. (L’écrivain rêve éveillé. - Le tueur cauchemarde éveillé)

Charles de Leusse

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Claire Tomalin

When a writer dies, he becomes his books.

Jorge Luis Borges

Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.

James Lee Burke

Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.

Jerry Cantrell

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

E. M. Forster

I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

Eddie Huang

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

Betty White

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

Chriscinthia Blount