Writer Quotes
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
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(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.
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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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Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.
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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'm a very conceptual writer.
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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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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
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I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
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I'm a writer, not a genre.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
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I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it.
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A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
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If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
