Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a janitor at McDonald's.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.
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.
The painful part of being a new writer on 'ER' is that you come on with all these great ideas, and you find out we've already done them.
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
I'm the least-experimental writer. The idea of trying things just for the sake of pushing the envelope, that's never really interested me.
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like a writer than anything else.
It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.
It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I'm just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common sense.
When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a writer is like to interview.
The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's published, it's thrown out there, and then there's a response.