As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.
...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.
Failing to writer everyday doesn't mean that you've given up, though a chapter a day - keeps writers block away!
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.
