Writer Quotes
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A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state of affairs.
John D. Voelker
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Literary theories will not make a writer write.
Allen Wier
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I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."
Judy Blume
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I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
Simon Mawer
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... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.
Marcel Proust
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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
Nilo Cruz
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As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos.
Nicholas Meyer
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
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Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
Coco J. Ginger
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I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
Steve Erickson
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Maybe because I began as a writer, I have a good ear for dialogue, and maybe being an English major - and that I also read a lot as a kid - if I hear somebody say something that I think's funny, or I find a situation or story, I'll try to work that into the movie.
Owen Wilson
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I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the truth was that I had never put myself forward as a writer, I didn't like the idea of the 'professional writer'; I just wanted to write. But that was not how the world worked...
Bonnie Greer
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I realized early on that if I became an actor, I could play a writer and a sculptor and a painter and be all the things you just don't have time to be in your lifetime. I could get to learn about all of them.
Harry Dean Stanton
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Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air all the time late into the night. I was very excited when I started making a living out of my writing, and I decided, 'I will live in nothing but an absolutely healthy way.'
Haruki Murakami
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As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.
Haaz Sleiman
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I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God, what are people going to think, then you're not writing comedy. You have to write what makes you laugh, and then the world hopefully laughs as well.
David Mandel
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I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
Allison Silverman
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I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I always did. And then I started to really enjoy it.
Sarah Pinborough
