Quotes About Writer

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.

Proceed with caution when you befriend a writer, for if you fall out of their good graces they have the delightful capability of doing any number of dastardly things to you upon the written page.

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.