Writer Quotes
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the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.
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I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs.
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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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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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You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
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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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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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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'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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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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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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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 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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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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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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A writer is someone who has written something today
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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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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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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.
