Quotes About Writer

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

I am, incidentally, the only writer to have received the Somerset Maugham award twice - the first time for my first novel, the second time for my second first novel.

There is something suicidal in a writer's solitude. One is alone even in one's own solitude. Always inconceivable. Always dangerous. Yes. The price one pays for having dared go out and scream.

Marilynne Robinson has written a deeply romantic love story embodied in the language and ideas of Calvinist doctrine. She really is not like any other writer. She really isn't Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Robinson has created a small, rich, and fearless body of work in which religion exists unashamedly, as does doubt, unashamedly.

My impression is that life—a big word, I know—inflicts themes on a writer through certain experiences that impress themselves on his consciousness or subconscious and later compel him to shake himself free by turning them into stories.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Vale la pena leer con cuidado esta cita juvenil; contiene tres elementos precoces de su teoría de la novela: (1) que el escritor se sirve sin escrúpulos de toda la realidad; (2) la ambición totalizadora y (3) la idea de que la novela debe mostrar, no juzgar: «Il

Para el escritor latinoamericano, Borges significó la ruptura de un cierto complejo de inferioridad que, de manera inconsciente, por supuesto, lo inhibía de abordar ciertos asuntos y lo encarcelaba dentro de un horizonte provinciano.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government

Tran Thi Thu Van, the writer from Saigon, spent those weeks wandering in the wasteland of the battle trying to stay alive. She would later record scene after scene of horror in her book Mourning Headband for Hue.

If I were ever asked by some young, sensitive writer just starting out, what key lesson I've learned in life (which I'll never be), I'd probably say that there is no aperture of egress, however tiny and exquisitely sensitive, that can't be turned into an aperture of ingress.

Imagination is a gift waiting to be opened. A writer must peel back the wrapping and share that offering with the world.

Imagination is a writer's refuge and a renewable source of energy.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

But this one was a writer, not a reader.

The Mob" thought that a good deal should be overlooked in a Melmotte, and that the philanthropy of his great designs should be allowed to cover a multitude of sins. I do not know that the theory was ever so plainly put forward as it was done by the ingenious and courageous writer in "The Mob"; but in practice it has commanded the assent of many intelligent minds.

Sympathy may, no doubt, be conveyed by letter; but there are things on which it is almost impossible for any writer to express himself with adequate feeling; and there are things, too, which can be spoken, but which cannot be written.

logographos, a writer of speeches for others to use

I like writing fiction better than anything, because just being a writer of fiction gives you an absolutely unassailable protection against reality; nothing is ever seen clearly or starkly, but always through a thin veil of words.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.

That's deep, he said with just a hint of mockery. You a psychologist? I told him I was a writer.