Feminsit Writer Quotes

Your true passion in life is what you'd be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars. ~ Maggie Young

When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're sort of in the day-to-day world, you're certainly there for your day-to-day relationships with people, and so on. ~ Stephen R. Bissette

You are very smart. You must be very well educated. You are very pretty. You must be very rich because you're a writer. ~ Lisa See

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Words that are written,
Come from the heart,
If they touch you at all,
The writer has done their part.'

(Quote by Julie Gamble) © 2016 ~ Julie Gamble

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light. ~ Jen Lancaster

Tongue and hand tied. It cut me off, trapped and held me within my own silent dark word tomb. ~ Jazz Feylynn

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. ~ Manuel Puig

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director. ~ Ricky Gervais

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ~ Tim Cahill

I want to... have fun with writing again. Enjoy my work, enjoy playing with the language and characters like a sculptor plays with clay. But there's this manic focus on numbers--how many books have you written and how many have you sold and it's all push, push, push, and no time for reflection--but at heart, books are about dreaming... which is just the opposite. So I don't know...
M.M. Bennetts comment to Nancy Bilyeau as related in Nancy's tribute "M.M. Bennetts: The Closest Friend I Never Met ~ M.M. Bennetts

One of the girls devised a method of stamping envelopes which enabled her to work at a speed of between one hundred and one hundred and twenty envelopes per minute …. We do not know just what processes were followed in developing the method, as the girl studied it out and put it in operation while the writer was taking a vacation. ~ Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug. ~ William S. Burroughs

We need to write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory. ~ Sandra Cisneros

Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off. ~ Ted Alexandro

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either. ~ Charles Bukowski

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work. ~ Kevin Hart

It's not about fancy literary prizes. It's not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that's all. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use. ~ William Faulkner

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines. ~ Majel Barrett

The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them. ~ Solomon Woytowich

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people's children in their body for money. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? ~ Abbi Jacobson

It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this other universe from this other galaxy that has nothing to do with mine? That's how I really feel about it. Let's be honest - I'm still the writer, so certain things will be common denominators. But that I just want to keep natural and not studied. ~ Chang-rae Lee

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone. ~ Brewster Ghiselin

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. ~ Maya Angelou

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut. ~ Meghan O'Rourke

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. ~ James McBride

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it. ~ Terry McMillan

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. ~ Paul Johnson

How much better life seemed to me now that it seemed susceptible of being illuminated, taken out of the shadows, restored from our ceaseless falsification of it to the truth of what it was, in short, realized in a book! How happy the writer of a book like that would be, I thought, what a labour awaited him! ~ Marcel Proust