Writer Quotes

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I am the worlds laziest writer.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.