Writer Quotes

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

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'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

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 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.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

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.