Writer Quotes

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

The writer works in a lonely way.

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.

I feel like it's a gift for any writer to be recognized like this.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.

I always wanted to be a writer.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.