Writer Quotes
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes
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I'm not a great writer.
E. L. James
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
Daniel Alarcon
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I'm a fast writer.
J. J. Abrams
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent
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I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
Stephen Graham Jones
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
Dan Futterman
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. Priestley
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
Maya Angelou
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
Karan Mahajan
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
Iris Johansen
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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.
Manuel Puig
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
Garth Stein