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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.
You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.
I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.
If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.