Quotes About Writer

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.

Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York.

There are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks.

Words--Midnight coined and daily spent. . .writer of the dream. --Jim Ross Author, Rays: Wherever They Touch

When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before, if no woman was ever that socially sacred creature, "a great writer," why do we think we can succeed now?

Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?

I'm a writer," Jane says. "I have a habit, I guess, where I see all the possibilities in a situation. No matter what, there's always at least one that's terrifying.

How important is it to be 'important' as a writer?

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

Personally I'd give ten thousand bucks to be a psychiatrist and not a writer.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Moi, je suis l'écrivain, la pute, l'étrangère, la femme libre aussi. Je ne suis pas le « bien » qu'on possède et qu'on exhibe, qui console. Je ne sais pas consoler.

I see Sarah framed in the light of her doorway and it is like looking at a painting that emanate a mixture of wishes and truths about someone I loved - from a time I can already vividly remember. I wonder if this is a hazard of being a writer: a sense of detachment that sometimes makes the present seem like it is already past.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't even occur to me that that was something you could do.

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

I think every American kid grows up dreaming about being in the movies. That's completely normal for us. But I mostly wanted to be a writer, and I got taught the scriptwriting program.

If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they hire and fire enough writers until they get something generic.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game. I feel like I am progressing as an artist, as a writer and as a performer and I know that there will be that one moment that will change everything.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'