Top 1200 Writer Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.

As an SF writer, you've got the infinite toolkit of the writer at your disposal.

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!'

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

In the TV world, we are seeing a lot more power going to the writer. I sense it is a writer's medium.

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 means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

I was a writer before 'Eat, Pray, Love,' and I'll be a writer after it's over. It's what I want to do for the rest of my life.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

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

One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

It really was total heaven to be a writer. As a model or actor you are employed on someone's whim. As a writer, you are in control.

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one

A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer.