Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.
I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.
Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth from the writer’s heart.
At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.
I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.
