115 quotes found
“If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
“You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --”
“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”
“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.”
“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”
“What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.”
“I'd love to be a writer one day”
“A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.”
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
“I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a ...”
“No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.”
“To make this world a whole lot brighter,when I grow up I'll be a writer.”
“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant product will never correlate exactly to the truth, w...”
“I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.”
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind...”
“You have always wanted to be a writer. Getting the job at the magazine was only your first step toward literacy celebrity. You used to write what you believed to be urbane sketches infinitely super...”
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other room. Then your night life started getting more interesting and complicated, and...”
“In the kitchen Anna was quietly plotting to get rid of him. A brief talk, then she would contact the publisher and ask for someone more suitable. When she bore her best china cautiously back into t...”
“A writer must always be the no.1 fan of their book,”
