Quotes About Writer

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

There's a lot of anti-intellectualism in Britain. And the writer's views on this or that are really of less importance, as they see it, than that of the man in the street.

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

Dad is in commercial real estate. Mom is a writer and a retired teacher.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

The only tension that gets my attention, is when I stick a fork too close to my silver filling.

People wrote me off but they did not realize that I was a writer - I rewrote my own destiny.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

The writer Richard Manning has argued that 'the most destructive force in the American West is its commanding views, because they foster the illusion that we command.

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives .

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.