Famous Writer Sayings

#1. I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

Daniel Marques

#2. I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Ken Kesey

#3. SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD:
Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary.

Joe Bob Briggs

#4. Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

John Updike

#5. Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Siri Hustvedt

#6. Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

Victoria Strauss

#7. I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

Shantel VanSanten

#8. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

J.K. Rowling

#9. To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren't, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

Padgett Powell

#12. So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows.

Stan Schatt

#13. The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Lillian Hellman

#14. There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#15. You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

Ruth Rendell

#16. When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you add and expand from there to create a three-dimensional performance.

David Suchet

#18. I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Jorge Luis Borges

#19. When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

Don DeLillo

#20. I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

Andy Rooney

#21. No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Mylo Carbia

#22. We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

David Lagercrantz

#23. I have been told that the dying words of one famous 20th-century writer were, I should have used fewer semicolons

Lynne Truss

#24. Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Gene Weingarten

#25. Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer's Guide, and Mo Poe Fo Yo: When You Just Can't Get Enough.

Kelly Creagh

#26. Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Peter Carey

#27. It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

David Suchet

#28. As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

Pankaj Mishra

#29. Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

Robert Galbraith

#30. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.

Mylo Carbia

#31. We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#32. I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan Franzen or a Joshua Ferris.

Gabrielle Zevin