Writer Quotes
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My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages....
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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'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 writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.
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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
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A writer is someone who has written something today
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I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
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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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Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
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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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I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.
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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'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Amy Schumer is a really, really hilarious writer. She's super funny, and I feel like the core of our senses of humor is really similar.
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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
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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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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
