There is no such thing as an "aspiring writer". You are a writer. Period.
I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?
I really am a very research-oriented writer.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
A real writer [. . . ] looks not in another writer but himself.
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.
In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. . . If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
Im a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.
If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!
Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.