Quotes About Writer

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

I believe any fiction writer is inspired by real life.

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

I am a social realist writer.

For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes to write his script.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

I like to think I've grown as a writer and taken some risks, but I still consider myself to be a literary writer.

I think it's a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that's not your job. You're not a writer, necessarily - although there are some actors that are good at it.

It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished' * --Czeslaw Milosz. * And, I might add, if the family isn't finished, then the writer is.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

If she got tired of the writer, she could probably marry a short, heavyset man on the middle rungs of private equity.

But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this.

Alcohol is the gift of any narration, and any writer thrills to the thwop of a corkscrew being pulled.

In this admiration, which goes beyond the passivity of contemplative attitudes, the joy of reading appears to be the reflection of the joy of writing, as though the reader were the writer's ghost.

It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.

My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'