Writer Quotes · Page 47

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer,…

— Ellen Potter

“Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to…

— John Patrick Shanley

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I…

— Gabrielle Zevin

For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's…

— Anatoly Rybakov

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Words are my leisure, Words are my life. Words are my gift to thee, Use 'em wisely for light.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting…

— Robert Gottlieb

“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”

— robert m drake

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as…

— Charles Soule

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

— Bryce Courtenay

I'm a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they're a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel…

— Ivo Graham

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the…

— Tom Stoppard

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in…

— Winona Ryder

I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a…

— Marianne Williamson

I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they…

— Tess Gerritsen

“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“If you can write; then you are a writer - Rayvon L Browne”

— Anonymous

“Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives…

— Lori Foster

“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to…

— Ann Packer

“The seed of our love will always cube within the wonder of infinite.”

— robert m drake

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the…

— Graham Swift