Writer Quotes
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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'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
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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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It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's still just as many unemployed people in Hollywood as there ever has been, but there's so many more avenues to sell things, because of digital, and Amazon, and Netflix, and all these different platforms. That's crazy and exciting in a creative way, and we'll see where that all stands five years from now. But on the corporate side, I still see that pendulum swinging back in that other direction, which is a little not comforting.
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
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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.
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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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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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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.
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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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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.
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It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.
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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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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 was never a writer.
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I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
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Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.
