For Writers Quotes
What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.
New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
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.
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People who are great writers don't have to write novels anymore.