My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed t...
I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which mean...
Great people give it with reproaches.
It is fitting for a great God to forgive great sinners.
Great needs grow from great possessions.
There is a great art in selling the wind.
Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great.
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Everybody is Other in Maupin.
For me, writing was the only way out.
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.
Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.
I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
