Quotes About Writer

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

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

Hello, I'm Al Gore. I am a contributing writer to Rolling Stone. I used to be the next president of the United States…

Hunter was one of those "dropouts," raised in Louisville, Kentucky, who had arrived in the late sixties after writing gigs in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Big Sur, and San Francisco.

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE hanged himself at age forty-six. I had sent one of our best new feature writers, David Lipsky, out to profile Wallace when Infinite Jest was first published in 1996.

As for his piece, Truman had been struggling with writer's block since In Cold Blood and couldn't finish the assignment.

O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...

Once you were in possession of an actual idea, you owed it a debt for having chosen you, and not some other writer, and you paid that debt by getting down to work, not just as a journeyman fabricator of sentences but as an unshrinking artist ready to make painful, time-consuming, even self-flagellating mistakes.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

when I was successful, but accused of arrogance, I wanted to drag every journalist who misunderstood to this place, and make them see that for a woman, a working-class woman, to want to be a writer, to want to be a good writer, and to believe that you were good enough, that was not arrogance; that was politics. (Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? p. 103)

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a wonderful thing for a writer.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.