Writer Quotes
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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The writer is all alone.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
