Writer Quotes - page 99

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. (Erica Jong)
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs. View quote
Erica Jong
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own. View quote
Sarah Waters
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. View quote
George Clooney
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. View quote
Nawal El Saadawi
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. View quote
Brian Aldiss
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. View quote
Brian Aldiss
...There's no secret, no shortcut. Once you accept that being a writer or a creator is just really hard and takes a lot of hours of slogging through crappy first drafts, you just keep producing, and then you turn around and it's done. That's the magic. View quote
Esperanza Spalding
In the country of the story the writer is king. View quote
Shirley Jackson
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free. View quote
Orhan Pamuk
I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it. (Bret Easton Ellis)
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts. View quote
Randy Alcorn
When I was a young writer there had been a stage where Camus, almost more than any other contemporary literary figure, radically set the tone for my own view of life and history. View quote
William Styron
Every poem is political. In poems not obviously political, the writer is trying to avoid something... View quote
Danez Smith
Part of life has a public orientation, but part of it does not. He has a private self that looks inward, and he should be able to feel with some distinctness the difference between public and private roles. It strikes me that those eighteenth century individuals who wrote letters to the newspapers signed "Publius” or something like that, were giving expression to this difference. When the writer appeared before the public in the common interest, he was conscious of stepping outside of his private considerations and entering into another capacity, of assuming a posture. The rest of the time he was his own man, which his thoughts and feelings reserved for himself. View quote
Richard Weaver
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat. View quote
John Cleese
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not. View quote
John Cleese
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. View quote
Roald Dahl
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about. (Richard Morgan)
I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots. View quote
Camille Paglia
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting. View quote
Juliana Hatfield
"A writer,” I said, when my social worker asked me what I planned to do when I got out of the hospital. "I'm going to be a writer.” "That's a nice hobby, but how are you going to earn a living?” My social worker and I did not like each other. I didn't like her because she didn't understand that this was me, and I was going to be a writer; I was not going to type term bills or sell au gratin bowls or do any other stupid things. View quote
Susanna Kaysen
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. View quote
Susanna Kaysen