Writer Quotes

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.