Writer Quotes
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Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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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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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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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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The real writer is one who really writes.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.
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I'm a very conceptual 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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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 always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
