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Writer Quotes (page 12)

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore. Leon Uris
She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just writers, must read like predators. For books are food, she said, for every single one of us. Pete Hamill
Warren Ellis quote: "Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards."
Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards. Warren Ellis
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Some writers are only born to help another writer write one..."
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway
Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So long as the writer is a woman who was once a whore and is moderately wealthy in her old age. Roberto Bolano
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
Burton Rascoe quote: "What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer..."
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Burton Rascoe
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote over five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage,... Daniel Defoe
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to writereally, really shitty first drafts. Anne Lamott
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them. Anne Rice
[The Writer silently passes her a pint bottle of whiskey.] Thank you, Mr.--? WRITER: Chekhov! Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov! MRS HARDWICKE-MOORE [smiling with the remnants of coquetry] : Thank you, Mr.--Chekhov. Tennessee Williams
Harlan Ellison quote: "The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a..."
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. Harlan Ellison
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. Poppy Z. Brite
I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible. Poppy Z. Brite
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one..."
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power. Joyce Carol Oates

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