A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.
I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.
The Writer: [referring to Chris] Although I hadn't seen him in more than ten years, I know I'll miss him forever.
The Writer: The train had knocked Ray Brower out of his Keds the same way it had knocked the life out of his body.
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.
