Writer Quotes
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I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.
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I think I'm a good joke writer. I'm also very scared that the last joke I wrote is the last joke I'll ever write.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.