America Quote by Nelson Algren

Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost…

— Nelson Algren

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

— William Saroyan

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of…

— William Faulkner

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is…

— John Updike

“A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.”

— Roland Barthes

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

“Creative writer has artistic sensibility. He observes the world like any common men. But his vision observes the world quite differently. He can perceive…

— Aristotle

“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…

— Wallace Stegner

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

— John Cleese

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

— Sigmund Freud

A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which…

— Sigmund Freud

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A…

— Henry Miller

The fact that I am constantly immersed in the act of legal writing and editing has made me a better and more efficient creative…

— Daniel Olivas

For a creative writer possession of the ruth is less important than emotional sincerity.

— George Orwell