Quotes About Writer

If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer.

I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness.

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.

If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

The pleasure a reader gets is often equal to the pleasure a writer is given.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.

I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.