The trick is not to become a writer, it is to stay a writer.
– Harlan Ellison
Tag: writer
Quotable 477
Just as “no man is a hero to his valet,” no writer is a hero to his or her proofreader.
– Ben Schott
Quotable 473
Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
– Carlos Fuentes
Quotable 466
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
– Stephen King
Quotable 447
There’s a saying in all writers’ rooms – it’s either fear or faith. You’re either trying to satisfy your guess about other people’s expectations, or you’re working through the genuine and authentic possibilities of the material.
– David Milch
Quotable 440
I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.
– Ishmael Reed
Quotable 439
Being a writer is understanding how you can love your book, be willing to die for every word, think it’s perfect and yet at the same time wonder how far you’d have to fling your book into the sea so that the tide doesn’t drag it back.
– Meredith Ireland
Quotable 428
Part of being a writer is getting yourself quiet enough and out of the way enough that the character can just speak.
– Callie Khouri
Quotable 417
Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi
Quotable 409
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
– P.D. James