Writer Quotes

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

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

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

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

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I'm not a bad boy - I'm a writer.

Even the best writer has to erase.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

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.

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.