Writer Quotes
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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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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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
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In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
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I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.
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Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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I’m more of an organic writer, I like building things from the bottom, from scratch.
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A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop.
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
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As a writer, I've always been somebody who's been productive and hustled hard.
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At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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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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A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.
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Nobody's safe around a writer.
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A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
