Writer Quotes

One of my methods for developing my own voice in fiction, a process I am taking very slowly and deliberately, is through these very intense encounters with certain writers.

Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers

I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.

It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.

When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that’s what Scott and the writers did – they weren’t trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.