That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
It is the duty of the writer to describe.
He asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. " "are you desperate?" "I don't know.
I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.
A writer's business is minding other people's business. . . all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.
My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.
What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.
Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.
I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners.
I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I've got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.
I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills. . . and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it. You're all of those things, so I always viewed myself that way. And with the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.
I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of you. But, you know, I started writing songs by myself. I didn't really have a co-writer, besides my dad. When I see a record and it has a song on it that someone wrote [alone], I just really believe in them as a writer. I feel like it's a window into them, more than it is if you write a song with someone else.