Quotes
Quotes about Writer
Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.
Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean. (on sportswriters)
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.
My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page (Regina Brett has written regular columns for 2 Ohio papers).
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
