Writer Quotes
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
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The keyhole is my lens as a writer.
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I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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I am a gay writer, but I am also a Scottish writer and some days a lazy writer, or a funny writer. Being gay is just a part of who I am.
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.
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There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
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There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.
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I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.
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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
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I'm not from a particularly sci-fi background. I'm not anti sci-fi at all, but I've never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.
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Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
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When I look at what a writer owes to the reader, it's critical to know that everything you're writing about is not made up in your head. I feel that unless you can document and be certain about what it is that you're writing about, the reader is going to lose faith in your own integrity.
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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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.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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A writer is someone who has written something today
