115 quotes found
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.”
“Its not about fancy literary prizes. Its not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. Im not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, thats all.”
“You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.”
“I like writing that puts the needle right into the vein. I dont think, when Im writing, Tell a good story or find a meaning. Im thinking phrase by phrase, make it tight, make it good. Get the idea ...”
“I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.”
“When asked, How do you write? I invariably answer, One word at a time.”
“The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.”
“I'm a writer, but I'm not writing to entertain you, I'm writing to keep alive my knowledge.”
“Fanscination is what keeps a writer going. To be able to write, a writer has to be fascinated about a particular something that becomes the idea of the story”
“I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours and a fixed salary and very little original thinking to do. The life of a writer is absolute hell...”
“A writer creates many lives, changes lives, and with that lives forever.”
“The writer begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.”
“If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules dissappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form tha...”
“There's something more surprising than becoming a bestseller, and that's receiving messages of hate by other fellow authors.”
“What galled him most was the presumption of these writer types, as if there werent actual people in the world, with jobs to do, appointments to keep, wives to appease, but only so much material.”
“As a writer, my mission is to represent the perceptible world in such a way that readers can see the extraordinary that lives all around them. I want to converse on the page. I want to squash the h...”
“When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.”
“Whats it like being a writer? Mostly its like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal...”
“People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows every researcher, every writer, every spy.”
“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.”
