A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.
Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing personal and editorialized information about them.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
Erin Gruwell: Your bags are packed and you think the wine will give me a headache?
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
