The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.
Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.
Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.
Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.
I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, , September 14, 1958)
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
