I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.
I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.
You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.
When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
I've been accused of being unambitious, but what I do takes up every minute. I'm executive producer, I'm a writer and the host.
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
