Writer Quotes

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.

Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

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.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!

I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.