Writer Quotes

I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working with other writers, as in Hollywood or in a shared world series, will also strengthen your skills, by exposing you to new ways of seeing the work, and different approaches to certain creative challenges.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

The first job of a writer is to be honest.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

I really wanted to be a writer.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.