Writer Quotes
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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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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 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 certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
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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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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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I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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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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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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Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
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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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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.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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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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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
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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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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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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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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.
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A writer is someone who has written something today
