Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder.
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.'
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Every published writer, myself included, was at one time unpublished. All writers know what rejection feels like.
David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.
I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten as an actor.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher.
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.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.