Writer Quotes

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I'm not a disciplined writer.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.