I always wanted to be a writer.
I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.
My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.
As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
In the U. K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.
The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.
So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there finds it more than it can bear? Shall there be no strong meat at table because there happen to be some guests there whose stomachs are weak, or who have spoiled their own digestions?
Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a pathetic dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. " All this is a reminder that psychopaths have been known to possess engaging qualities, and that Hitler was no less repellent for not sporting fangs.
The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are.
Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do. . . " speech, he would answer 'ask not. '
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
I never met a writer who wasn't lazy.