Quotes About Writer

I am a confident writer, a hothead, and have a very thin skin for any criticism. This charming combination of personality traits makes me an argument machine on our staff.

el escritor es un inimputable, como lo es un niño o un loco. Puede perpetrar actos trascendentales de consecuencias cataclísmicas, pero como un menor de edad que no calcula las consecuencias por falta de madurez, el escritor debe ser absuelto cuando se constate que de modo impredecible e involuntario ha cambiado el devenir natural de las cosas.

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

A writer's place in a nation's literary history cannot be judged by whether or not he is capable of writing a book as heavy as a brick. That must rest on his contributions to the development and enrichment of that nation's language.

Io mi immersi di colpo lasciandomi sopra la testa e dietro le spalle ogni suono, come farebbe un grande scrittore.

One is a writer, or one is not.

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

The difference between an author and a writer is similar to that of the prophet and the messenger. Simply, because every messenger is not a prophet, but every prophet has a message and prophecies to convey to the people.

Penwoman to Posterity.

We have lived! Our moments are important. This is what it is to be a writer: to be the carrier of details that make up history.

It was my own human mind. I needed to understand it. Why? It's the writer's landscape. Imagine that a painter has that wild animal to capture on canvas: arresting its fangs, the raging color of its eyes, the blue of it's hump, the flash of its hoofs, the rugged shadow that it casts. We writers have that beast inside us: how we feel, think, hope, dream, perceive.

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding ' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

The only 18th-century writer to be revived by the admiration of our contemporaries is de Sade. Visitors to a palace who admire nothing but the latrines.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of the state? But what if this is in the writer's nature, and his own imperfection grieves him so, and the makeup of his talent is such, that he can only portray the poverty of our life, unearthing people from the backwoods, from the remote corners of the state! So here we are again in the backwoods, again we have come out in some corner!

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one's passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

le roman « L'Enveloppe noire » (1986) proposait une allégorie du quotidien socialiste avec de forts accents politiques, à une époque où la dictature encourageait l'écrivain « esthète » détaché de la réalité du moment. (p. 49)

Romanc?lar için bulunmaz bir okuyucuyum Esat A?abey,' derdi. 'Birinci s?n?f okuyucu; hay?r, daha ileri: lüks okuyucu. Kitaplar?n?n böyle okundu?unu bilselerdi fakirler; bir türlü ölemezlerdi.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.