Writer Quotes - page 6

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. View quote
Michael Morpurgo
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. View quote
Manuel Puig
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. View quote
Manuel Puig
The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer. View quote
Nick Tosches
For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from. View quote
Nick Tosches
Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. (Augusten Burroughs)
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. View quote
Paul Harding
The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. View quote
Walter Hill
You're a writer. Make it up. View quote
David Benioff
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean. View quote
James Henry Breasted
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. View quote
Jane Smiley
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. View quote
John McGahern
There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. View quote
Amy Bloom
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. View quote
Amy Chua
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that. (Carlton Cuse)
Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story. View quote
Chris Cleave
I'm a much better writer for being a father. View quote
Chris Cleave
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. View quote
Lynn Abbey
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. View quote
Samuel McChord Crothers