Writer Quotes

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.
Anne Rice

Lonely, Pretty, Training

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
Anne Rice

Future, Made, Learn

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
Anne Rice

Everything, Impossible, She

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
Anne Rice

Time, Him, Enough

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Joseph Brodsky

Attitude, Patriotism, Language

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.
Matt Groening

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook

Sometimes, Comedy, Director

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'
Ayelet Waldman

Simple, Single, Question

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell

Laugh, Used, Relatives

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
Lev Grossman

Love, Often, Books

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
Lev Grossman

Good, Among, Readers

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.
Lev Grossman

Game, Coffee, Another

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
Thom Yorke

Involved, Creating, Helped

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Franklin P. Jones

Bad, Nothing, Memory

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.
Rita Dove

Love, Find, Themselves

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.
Rob Sheffield

Rock, Here, She

I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.
Rob Sheffield

Life, Music, Around

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
Dennis Potter

God, Lazy, Names

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
Russell Banks

Work, Living, Learn

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi

Work, Food, Job

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes

Good, Experience, Bad

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
Nathan Fillion

Working, Between, Difference

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

Pen, Blow, Torch

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
Jason Mraz

Great, Yourself, Live

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
Wole Soyinka

Tell, Methodical

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins

Confidence, Enough, Start

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.
Stevie Nicks

Wife, Focus, Kids

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
Carl Hiaasen

Greatest, Boring, Sin

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
R. L. Stine

Possible, Characters, Block

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty

Life, Serious, Within

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