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.
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
