Writer Quotes - page 100

What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader. (Will Self)
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. View quote
Will Self
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. View quote
Will Self
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period. View quote
Will Self
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production. View quote
Will Self
That famous trick, related by nearly every writer on Hindu jugglery, of youths tossing balls of twine in the air and climbing up on them out of sight, I did not see, nor could I find during my visit any well-authenticated evidence that it was ever done. The tricks I saw I could have imitated with little preparation. I would not presume to introduce them upon the stage. View quote
Alexander Herrmann
Don't ask a writer what he's working on. It's like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. View quote
Amy Lowell
Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer. View quote
Lionel Richie
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark. View quote
Ben Hecht
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. View quote
Ben Hecht
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. (Joan Didion)
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream. View quote
Joan Didion
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. View quote
Joan Didion
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. View quote
Leon Uris
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. View quote
David Mamet
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. View quote
David Mamet
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience. View quote
David Mamet
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.' View quote
David Mamet
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. View quote
David Mamet
It is because of identity politics – we are, sadly, becoming more tribal. The expectation seems to be that a writer from each tribe must tell the story of that tribe. I'm Turkish but also many other things. For me, imagination is a desire to transcend boundaries. When we write, we can be multiple. (Elif Shafak)
I learned to pay attention to the readers and not to the madness...Because to be a writer in Turkey is a bit like being kissed on one cheek and slapped on the other. View quote
Elif Shafak
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. View quote
Chris Cornell
Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don't have that secret confession, you don't have a poem - don't even have a story. Don't have a writer. View quote
Ted Hughes
Maybe all poetry, insofar as it moves us and connects with us, is a revealing of something that the writer doesn't actually want to say but desperately needs to communicate, to be delivered of. Perhaps it's the need to keep it hidden that makes it poetic-makes it poetry. View quote
Ted Hughes