Quotes About Writer

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted except to the imaginative writer.

disease itself, & the disease, which has been going on ever since my childhood & was only temporarily alleviated by psycho-analysis, lies in a character profoundly antagonistic to ordinary domestic life. Unfortunately the disease is also one's material. Cure the disease & I doubt whether a writer would remain. I daresay that would be all to the good.'16

I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that is what my mother made me.

A writer who hasn't written anything worth-while is a most doubtful person.

She had been the "muse" of a writer for a while. You hardly heard his name anymore. He was quite famous at the time, although possibly more famous for his lifestyle than his works. He was unfaithful and drank from breakfast to bedtime. Boozing and whoring, he said, the Rights of Man. She had been one of his trophies, "muse" a fancy word for mistress. He lived in Chelsea but had a wife and three small children tucked away in the country somewhere.

I found out and lost the only place I ever sort of regarded as home. Oh well. Best to stay in one's garden but Voltaire was a boring writer and sex is one of the greatest things there is.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

When the weakness of human soul conflict with writer's word, It will create self History.

A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

On the two-way street of communication, a happy symbiosis is achieved when a writer tosses up an offbeat usage or a puzzling word and the working reader figures it out and savors it.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Spirit is born of the imitation of spirit and a writer must pretend to be a writer in order finally to become a writer.

It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth with an irony that a self-respecting fiction writer would be ashamed to invent.

In the end, I think the local legends and traditions tell the true story. Written history reflects the beliefs or opinions or agenda of the writer. Local legends and tradition are more universal, less malleable—as you said, they tell us the beliefs of millions. They are often the most accurate versions of history.