The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
In picture-making the writer is the most important cog in the wheel.
If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never imposed the way I write a novel on my students. When I had students, I never said, "You should never start writing a novel until you have the last sentence. " I never did that, and I wouldn't do it now, but people now seem so interested in the process [of writing fiction] that I have to constantly make it clear when I describe mine that I'm not being prescriptive. I'm not proselytizing.
A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
You sure about this writer thing son?
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
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.
A writer can't subtract or excise any of hisher past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
There are a lot of people who talk about a formula for being able to start a fan base. But for me, it's been about songs and just being hard on myself as a writer, feeling like there is a purpose to it all.
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.
I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.