Writer Quotes
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
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I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.
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I don't know if I want to be a writer.
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person.
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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 ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
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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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And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...
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In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.
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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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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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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.
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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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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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For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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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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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
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If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you - and if you don't, nobody can help you.
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I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues.
