Quotes About Writers

Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word have given them substance, given them life. And so we readers walk, and dream, and imagine, in the city where imagination found its great home.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writer who tend to be shy, get to stay at home and still be public.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

all of the great writers drank, except for Kafka and Nietzsche, neither of whom you exactly wanted to be when you grew up.

A dreadful suspicion was coming over me. Hadn't my mortal life been nothing but abysmal struggle and trivia and fear? Wasn't that the way it was for most mortals? Wasn't that the message of a score of modern writers and poets - that we wasted our lives in foolish preoccupation? Wasn't this all a miserable cliche?

writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with metaphors? Writers stand still and yet vacate our homes Inside our fantasies. We are word-whores, With libidos and egos of balsa wood. We'd have sex with our books, if only we could.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

Ruth Rendell, Jonathon Kellerman, Len Deighton . . . clever writers, all of them. No romance, or supernatural, or street-level cop novels here. Psychological mysteries. Suspense. Kellerman was even himself a psychologist. Quinn figured the readers of such books got their enjoyment out of trying to outwit the writers. Would Ida or her late husband be the sort to write critical Amazon

The year 1844 marks an important epoch in the life of Mrs. Browning. It was in this year that, as a result of the publication of her two volumes of 'Poems,' she won her general and popular recognition as a poetess whose rank was with the foremost of living writers.

When he arrived, he found that this was true. New York was no less impressive for being mostly fictional. Of course, the place was lousy with writers.

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

Collaborating in the very private way of love or the highest kind of friendship… is the way for gifted, energetic wives of writers to a sort of composition of their own, this peculiar illusion of collaboration.

old horror writers—James, Chambers, Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and Algernon Blackwood.

Don't trust a writer who gives out advice. Writers are suckers for pretty turns of phrase with only the ring of truth.

Sólo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos públicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen más que la educación de sus súbditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores. La conciencia de los poderosos se retuerce cada vez que uno de estos héroes del pueblo, como el propio Bringas sin ir más lejos, denuncia lo que esos infames no se avergüenzan de perpetrar.

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.