Quotes About Writing

I'm a writer. I don't begin with some conceit in mind. I'm just trying to tell a good story.

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

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.

My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails.

Thank God for being a writer, because you do sort of find out what you think by the process of writing.

I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

My mother's side taught me to be a little bit afraid of everything. For a long time, I was quiet and cautious. But shyness makes you notice other people's excruciations and feel for them. I think that made a writer of me.

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'

I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

As a writer, I think about films I work on in a traditional Hollywood kind of a way. I'm curious to see how it translates.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'