Writer Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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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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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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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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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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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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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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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.
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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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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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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.
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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'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
