Writer Quotes

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

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.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.