Quotes of: Writers Keyword

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which mean...

David B. Coe

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

For me, writing was the only way out.

The Writer on Her Work

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Ben Okri

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Sophie Hannah

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.

Tiffany Madison

The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.

Millicent Ashby

Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.

Michael Bassey Johnson

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Saul Bellow

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Ned Beatty

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

Drake

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Italo Calvino

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Nicolas Berggruen

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Kyle Chandler

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Sam Shepard

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

Gloria Steinem

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

Dani Shapiro

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Burton Rascoe

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

Grace Paley

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

J.M. Porup