Writer Quotes
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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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.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.
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Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
