A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
The writer is all alone.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous fantasy, and I was fine with making changes for the actors that made them comfortable.
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Where I came from, no one was a writer.
I have dipped into Ian McEwan and so on. I tend not to stick with one writer. But I dip in here and there.
The writer is the midwife of understanding.
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer.
All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.
I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
I became a writer in spite of my environments.