Writer Quotes

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.

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.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.