Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be judged.
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.
I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.
I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
