Writer Quotes
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
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Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!
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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.
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As a writer, I believe in going where the evidence takes me rather than coming in with a preconceived notion and forcing the evidence to fit that belief.
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I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
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For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
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Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.
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There's a certain order to network shows that doesn't exist so much in cable, which is, you know, if you want to change a line you've got to talk to the writer.
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When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.
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You do not need to go to journalism school if you want to work in the fashion industry. I think high schools condition you to think this way: If you want to be a fashion editor, go to fashion school. If you want to be a writer, you should study journalism. I think that the best school in life is experience.
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When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.
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I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.
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I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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The main thing that drew me to him was that he was a beautiful writer, not just the clarity but the aptness of expression.
