Quotes about Writers, page 3

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about writers

Writers speak stench.

Quote by Franz Kafka about writers

Even if you wield the Matrix, end the war and save the universe a few times, there'll still be a writer out there who will see to it that you'll be remembered for that one horrible story you were in.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about writers

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Quote by Edna O'Brien about writers

They say great themes make great novels but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Quote by John O'Hara about writers

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Quote by Cynthia Ozick about writers

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about writers

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

Quote by Trey Parker about writers

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about writers

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Quote by John Dos Passos about writers

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about writers

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about writers

I met Robert Crumb in 1962, he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about writers

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about writers

Sean's a great, great writer.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about writers

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about writers

A writer has a start, without any doubt, which begins every day.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about writers

If you want to become a writer, dear reader, open the core and pull out from inkholder the universe.

Quote by Tudor Arghezi about writers

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about writers

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Quote by William Feather about writers