Writer Quotes

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

I'm a fast writer.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.

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.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.