Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.
There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes.
A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.
I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.
I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.
I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
I like Rebecca Miller and her writing. She's a tremendous writer and director.
I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
I'm not the fastest writer. I can't just crank out ideas that are good enough.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.
I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.
Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.