Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.
It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.
I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.
I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.
Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?
I'm an aspiring writer.' I hate that phrase. You're either a writer or you're not.
Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy
People should think that being a writer is cool. Even if you’re just a starving writer. Besides, most great writers were starving at one point or another. It comes with the title.
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is diffi...
Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just a festival of information. We're all analyzing and examining and predicting, and I can't imagine that it's like t...
Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imagine, to conjure images, to suspend disbelief, to e...
Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers com...
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of cours...
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particul...
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional ...
