Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
I like to be read. That's most of what any writer could want.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...
There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.
We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.