Writer Quotes

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.

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.