As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination.
Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.
A writer without his country is nothing.
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
You are either born a writer or you are not.
Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.