Writer Thinks Quotes

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." [ Time Magazine , October 31, 1977]”

— John Osborne

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's…

— Bruce Campbell

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.”

— Ann Landers

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

— Alec Soth

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,…

— Jess Walter

You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets…

— Samuel Johnson

I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or…

— Bruce Campbell

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that…

— Ezra Pound

“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in…

— Robert Stone

“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable…

— Flannery O'Connor

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs

— Ann Landers

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask…

— Bert Sugar

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees…

— Steven Brust

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs

— John Osborne

“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana