Writer Quotes
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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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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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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 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 consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.
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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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I feel as a writer I’m growing and hopefully each song I write is a little more honest.
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a 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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It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be taken in your teaching.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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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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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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A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.
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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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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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I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
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Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.
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A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
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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....
