A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.”
Source: Enemies of Promise
“A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?”
“A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.”
Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses
“A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.”
“A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.”
“A writer is like a gossiper who reveal secrets in a professional way.”
“A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be ready for radical empathy. If we empty ourselves of ourselves we’ll be able to vibrate in synchrony with something deep and powerful. If we’re lucky we’ll transmit a strong pure note, one that isn’t ours, but which passes through us. If we’re lucky, it will be a note that reverberates and expands, one that other people will hear and understand.”
“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.”
“A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.”
“A writer is not interested in explaining reality, he’s only interested in capturing it.”
“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”
Source: Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation
“A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.”
“A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.”
“A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.”
Source: Killosophy
“A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.”
Source: On life & letters
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Source: Essays of Three Decades
“A writer is someone who analyses the society, people and the world around him or her. Simply a writer is someone who pays attention to the utmost simple things happening around him or her. I believe the best things about being a writer is, you are going to live forever through your work, in your books, in the hearts of your readers, in your characters.”
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
“A writer is someone who feels the feelings and journals through words from despair into dreams to create a world where every loss turns to a stepping stone every betrayal to a lesson learned and the darkness turns to the gold of morn, a writer is someone, who feels passion and trembles with words, to create the wine of soul, a writer is someone who lowers her eyelashes, yet, says her story to this world.........
.........Jayita Bhattacharjee”
“A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.”
“A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.”
Source: Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation
“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”
“A writer is someone who has written something today”
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.”
“A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.”
Source: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
“A writer is someone who writes!”
“A writer is supposed to have anonymity.”
“A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!”
“A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.”
“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”
“A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.”
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
“A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.”
“A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words”
“A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.”
“A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.”
Source: A Life in Letters
“A Writer lives with many identities. I am not sure I can tell you everything about me.”
“A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.”
“A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.”
“A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.”
“A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?”
“A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.”
“A writer makes a pact with loneliness. It is her, or his, beach on which waves of desire, wild mind, speculation break. In my work, in my life, I am always moving toward and away from aloneness. To write is to refuse to cover up the rawness of being alive, of facing death.”
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with his story, a knowledge shortcut.”
“A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.”
Source: Population: The First Essay
“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
Source: The American Presidency
“A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.”