I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.
Hipolito (The Writer): We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.
Barton: That son of a bitch! Don't get me wrong, he's a fine writer...
How do you paint a writer's block? Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn.
...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
No writer can really sustain two huge - I hate the word 'franchises.'
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.
As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no going back.
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.
