“Apart from having ‘National Poet’, ‘National Anthem’ etc., I hope it will not be irrelevant if there is ‘National Writer’ in every… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“He pressed bravely ahead with his story, the outlines and preliminary versions of which by now filled two thick notebooks, reorganizing, redrafting,… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come… — Peter Gould Copy Share Image
“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
