Writer Quotes

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 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.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.