Writer Quotes

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

I never thought of myself as a writer.