Quotes 241 till 260 of 271.
-
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
-
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
-
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
-
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
-
What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
-
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
-
What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
-
Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
-
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
-
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
-
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
-
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
-
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
-
While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
-
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
-
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
-
Writer's block is just another word for video games. If you want to be a writer, get writing, you lazy bastards.
MySpace blog, 09 April 2007 -
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
All writer famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 13)
