Writer Problems Quotes

#1. The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.

Jordin Sparks

#2. My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

Doris Grumbach

#3. One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

Pope Paul VI

#5. There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

Larry McMurtry

#6. Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

Hanya Yanagihara

#7. Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

William Zinsser

#8. I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

Richard Patrick

#9. I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

Nick Nolte

#10. I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

Arzum Uzun

#11. People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

Gail Porter

#12. I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.

Vladimir Sorokin

#13. A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#14. It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

Christoph Waltz

#15. I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

Wallace Shawn

#16. The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day.

Charles Todd

#17. Let me show you what life is like lived in the moment. No past, no future, just the one perfect moment you're standing in and there's no guilt and there's no shame and there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of ...

Tiffany Reisz

#18. If I keep loving you, maybe you'll crack and love me too.

Richelle Mead

#19. And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug people, to distract their
attention from the serious problems and
divert them with a Romeo-and-Juliet
story, one scripted, however, by a soap opera writer.

Andrea Camilleri

#20. a company needs lots of smart, super-engaged employees who can identify its particular weaknesses and help it improve them.

Ben Horowitz

#21. Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas W. Higginson

#22. No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

Margaret Atwood

#23. There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.

John Dos Passos

#24. Writing is not magic. It's a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.

Roy Peter Clark

#25. Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems.

Hanif Kureishi

#26. ARGH! There's no such thing [as writer's block]. Seriously: THERE. IS. NO. SUCH. THING. You know what there is? There's a bunch of problems, creative and otherwise, that can stop you writing. They are not block. They are important skills.

Nick Harkaway

#27. To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

Jean Craighead George

#28. I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

Mike Young

#29. I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body

Diane Von Furstenberg

#30. Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when words won't come at all, and the other is Logorrhoea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.

Cecilia Bartholomew

#31. There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

Anne Lamott

#32. In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

Alain De Botton

#33. A writer who wants to be translated and published abroad faces a very difficult challenge: first of all, he must make sure that his book is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, that it is interesting to a global audience. Nobody is going to read about problems that they don't care about.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#34. There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

Jenny Lawson

#35. When you start (telling it like it is) speaking the truth, those who opposed it are part of the on-going problems that exist in any society. But it's always good to acknowledge the rebuttal of an opposition. Because the better rebuttal will often win the debate.

Henry Johnson Jr

#36. You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you'll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

Nick Hornby

#37. When we remove the snowdrift piled up over Chekhov in recent years, we uncover a man profoundly agitated by social problems; a writer whose social ideals are the same as those we live by; a philosophy of the divinity of man, of fervent faith in man - the faith that moves mountains.

Yevgeny Zamyatin