Writer Quotes
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I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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I was never a writer.
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I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.
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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
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What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
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I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too.... I think the commitment is to get up everyday and say, "I'm a writer, therefore what I'm supposed to do today is write." And to do that, and to do that and to do that.
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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.
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The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
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Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
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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.
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
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Writer? A complimentary term to conceal one’s insanities.
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Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.
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By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.
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I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.
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The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.
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I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.
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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
