Writer Quotes

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.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.