...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...
I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,
The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
I did 'Never Let Me Go,' and there were amazing people on that. Brilliant writer, director, cast. That was quite special.
Someone said that once a family producers a writer, that's the end of the family.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?
Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.
I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.
A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.