#writer

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#feels #here #i #i am #irritated

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#conception #create #fact #future #just

I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#i love #love #writer

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #had #her #his #i

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#come #healing #nothing #realization #right

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#first #importance #must #out #proportion

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#had #i #like #literary #more

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#back #basically #draft #faxes #first