Writer Quotes

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

I'm a fast writer.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.