Writer Quotes

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.