Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.
There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.
It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.
All writers are manipulative liars." Jack O. Savage, The Poet
Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.
Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.
