Writer Quotes

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

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.

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

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

He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.