Quotes by Writer There's no writer's block; there's only distraction. Carolyn Chute writer only distraction block I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't. Carolyn Chute writer still never wanted The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right. Karl Schroeder writer right never way I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time. Billy Burke writer songs write time I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do. Bruce Jackson schoolteacher writer I'm not a writer. I like being a reader. Brian Reynolds Myers writer being like reader Memory is a powerful thing for a writer. Bobbie Ann Mason writer thing memory powerful I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not. Bob Schieffer whether writer thought myself I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am. Beverly Lewis writer i-am just who Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me. Helen Garner writer most me admire I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious. Frank Peretti slow writer just careful I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer. Edmund White writer too american good It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer. Gary David Goldberg encouraged writer who me I don't know if I want to be a writer. Uzodinma Iweala writer know want I'm a fast writer. J. J. Abrams fast writer I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer. Dan Futterman pretend writer actor anything I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium. Kanika Dhillon author writer whatever always The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention. Barbara W. Tuchman writer hold should attention One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic. H. G. Bissinger writer game becoming baseball As the years went by I became a writer and illustrator, although exclusively of fantasies. Chris Van Allsburg illustrator became writer years «12345»