Writer Quotes

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.

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.

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

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.