Kind Writer Quotes

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

— Maeve Binchy

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

— Tracy K. Smith

“I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.”

— John Irving

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer.

— Peter Corris

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

— V. S. Naipaul

I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

“What kind of writer are you?” You can’t think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your”

— Kyung-Sook Shin

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

— Natalie Prass

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

— Andre Aciman

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on…

— Brett Dennen

As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to…

— Meghan Daum

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what…

— Melissa Bank

I think, because of the kind of writer I am, I can't do it halfway. I can't do it without dedicating my…

— Mary Gauthier

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have…

— Lorraine Adams

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by…

— Robert Frost

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and…

— Denise Duhamel

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and…

— Jonathan Ames

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be,…

— Greta Gerwig

“I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' ‘Oh Christ !’ ‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just…

— Iris Murdoch

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

— David M. Evans

To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.

— Ayn Rand

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not…

— Melissa Bank

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able…

— V. S. Naipaul

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written…

— John D'Agata

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals…

— Ayn Rand