Quotes of: Writers Keyword

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

Fannie Hurst

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Franklin P. Jones

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

Fran Lebowitz

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Flannery O'Connor

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

George Clooney

I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful thing; it really is.

Cary Fukunaga

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Charlie Hunnam

A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

C.J. Heck

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

Charles R. Jackson

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

Christa Miller

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Claire Tomalin

Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

Claire Tomalin

I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.

H. Raven Rose

The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.

Hudson Stuck

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Isaac Goldberg

Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.

Jami Attenberg

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

John Banville

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

Julianna Baggott

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

Julie Benz

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.

J.L. Bond