Writer Quotes Page 2

Part 2 of the writer quotations list about writing and novelist sayings citing Kevin J. Anderson, Alan Dean Foster and Robert De Niro captions

  • We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

    — Kevin J. Anderson
    70
  • The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

    — Alan Dean Foster
    70
  • The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing.

    Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.

    — Robert De Niro
    68
  • The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.

    — Ken Saro-Wiwa
    67
  • What is the best quotes for writer?
    Try the 10 Best writer quotes

  • A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

    — Edgar Allan Poe
    67

  • A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic.

    No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

    — Jim Bishop
    66
  • A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

    — Dean Acheson
    66
  • Sometimes the greatest love is not found in the dramatic scenes that poets and writers immortalize. Often, the greatest manifestations of love are the simple acts of kindness and caring we extend to those we meet along the path of life.

    — Joseph B. Wirthlin
    66
  • The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

    — Wole Soyinka
    66
  • A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich.

    I cannot properly contradict him.

    — Thomas Malthus
    65

  • Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.

    — William Faulkner
    65
  • I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

    — Dorothy Parker
    65
  • Related To Writer Quotations

    • autobiographical quotes
    • playwright quotes
    • narrator quotes
    • editor quotes
    • rewrites quotes
    • fiction
    • aspiring artists and american writer
    • autobiography
    • reader
    • author
    • publisher
    • paragraphs
    • write
    • biography
    • dostoevski
    • literary
    • blank-page
    • nonfiction
    • novelist
    • writing
  • I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

    — Kazuo Ishiguro
    64
  • I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

    — John Legend
    63
  • The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

    — Orson Scott Card
    62

  • If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write.

    Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

    — Louis L'Amour
    62
  • I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

    — Irvine Welsh
    60
  • One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

    — Stella Gibbons
    60
  • One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

    — John Grisham
    59
  • That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

    — Debbie Reynolds
    58

  • Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

    — Pope John Paul II
    58
  • Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

    — Henry David Thoreau
    57
  • It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

    — Francoise Sagan
    57
  • Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

    — Ben Okri
    57
  • I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start

    — Anne Mccaffrey
    57

  • The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

    — Jacques Barzun
    57
  • Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

    — Marya Mannes
    57
  • A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

    — Karl Kraus
    56
  • To survive, you must tell stories.

    — Umberto Eco
    56
  • There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

    — John Millington Synge
    56

  • Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them;

    a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

    — Karl Kraus
    55
  • A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

    — Roald Dahl
    55
  • So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

    — Rupert Sanders
    55
  • The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

    — Carson Mccullers
    55
  • Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

    — Maxim Gorky
    55

  • Previous Page Next Page

Meaningful Quotes - Popular Authors - Quote Topics - Picture Quotes

Quotlr helps you to improve your life, to achieve inner peace and happiness by reading motivational quotes. No matter if you're doing a research or just exploring sayings by famous people.

Please note that this site uses cookies to personalise content and adverts, to provide social media features, and to analyse web traffic. Please check our Privacy Policy.

2023 © Quotlr.com