(848 quotes found)
“Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”
Gene Fowler
“Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.”
Marguerite Duras
“But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master / something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
John Updike
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
Lillian Hellman
“Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.”
Rita Mae Brown
“The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.”
E. L. Doctorow
“There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
Quentin Crisp
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Sterling
“The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties”
William Somerset Maugham
