Quotes About Writer

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus more visceral forms.

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Si pudiese volver a vivir mi vida, no elegiría por cierto el ser escritor y ver pasar mis días en una sociedad retrógrada en que la aventura yace debajo de la cama, como un perro. Necesitaría una aventura-león. Me haría físico teórico para vivir en el corazón ardiente del romanticismo verdadero.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

According to the Marxist conception, one's social condition determines one's way of thought. His membership of a social class decides what views a writer will express.

must have been very tired, for I was getting as full of silly prejudices as a minor poet.

He saw the role of the serious writer as both lofty and practical in the same instant. He used to say that literature was one of the first indications of civilization. He used to say that a fine piece of prose could not only cure a depression, it could clear up a sinus headache. Like many great healers, he meant to heal himself.

O it does fascinate me so, my new-old-new friend, to compare our lives. Of course I am really not an artist or a writer tho' I am a story-teller. I am a born orator and even now I long & long & long for The Platform as an old circus clown longs—or as we pretend he longs for the Ring! On the platform and there alone I am really myself & in my element & now I have been away from the platform for 20 years!

Sadness is the best teacher to build a best writer.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

I'm the only actor in the family. My little brother does Parkour. My sister married a writer, so I think that's what sparked my interest in acting.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,' even on '24,' you could make up stuff.

and pleasure? What is it that I am tasting?' The most eloquent rabbi and writer of Hasidic mysticism, Abraham Joshua Heschel, left Warsaw in 1939 to become an important