Writer Quotes

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

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.