Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.
I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer.
I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
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?
Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television - or just written.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.
Neither as a writer nor, moreover, as a leader of a nation should you use terminology that obscures the reality of human evil.
I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you do anything.
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.
Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act.
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.
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.
Nostalgia is a sweet place for a poet and writer to be in. But it's an indulgence; a distraction. You can't live in a distraction.
I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.
When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the things that I direct.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world thinks this way.
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences.
When you go into projects, you can't look at it as limited; you have to dive into it wholeheartedly to be true to the writer's vision.
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.