Quotes About Author

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

Man, don't get me started on Pat Travers. That dude writes killer blues rock and roll riffs.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so much as their dating website wishlist.

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties.

I've always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

No one writes for me exclusively, nor do lead roles come by that easily. 'Dulla Bhatti' was one, but I was so disappointed with the film.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.