Writer Quotes
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If you are a nice person and you are a writer, that's two strikes against you.
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I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
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I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to gossip. And you don't have to explain why you're in such a bad mood when your work isn't going well.
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
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Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
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It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
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It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.
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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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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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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
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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 have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them are giving instructions. Writers tend to be in love with what they wrote. You can't always translate the words into the meaning, sometimes the meaning is better served without the words, difficult to make a writer to try to understand that. It gets, sometimes, tense.
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Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.
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If you don't want to be in a story, don't know a writer.
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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."
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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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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.
