Writer Quotes · Page 76

I'm a writer, so I like nuances.

— Zoya Akhtar

“What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I…

— Avijeet Das

“When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.”

— Elise Stokes

I'm a better writer than a performer.

— Ivo Graham

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

— Dana White

A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

— Ethan Coen

The thing is, if you make best-sellerdom your goal, you're going to be in trouble. It's a very nice thing to have…

— Diane Mott Davidson

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman…

— Cynthia Ozick

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

— Chelsea Cain

“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment…

— Taylor Mali

“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.”

— Jamie L. Harding

I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.

— Karla Crome

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

— Jesse Armstrong

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

— Richard LaGravenese

I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

— James Houston

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela,…

— Isabel Allende

“They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.”

— Andrew Sean Greer

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

— Arthur Smith

“99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Poet? No. Writer? No. I am just a dreamer.

— Raghib Clitso

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”

— John Irving

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

— Edmund White