Writer Quotes

I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.