Writer Quotes

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.