Quotes about Writers, page 2

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Quote by Erykah Badu about writers

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Quote by Russell Baker about writers

I wanted to be a writer; I wanted to sing.

Quote by Kim Basinger about writers

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about writers

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Quote by Al Alvarez about writers

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about writers

The moments of despair - every writer knows.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about writers

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

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.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

Quote by Orson Scott about writers

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writers

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Quote by Michael Chabon about writers

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about writers

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Quote by Peter Fonda about writers

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about writers

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Quote by Billy Joel about writers