When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. W...
Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will put an end to hard copies, even for someone like me who loves technology and does not fetishize the physical medium of books. ~ Steven P...
Every writer on this planet THINKS he is a great writer (why waste your entire life writing when you believe you are mediocre?) but its deemed socially unacceptable to actually speak out such thoughts. So, modesty is always a public concept and not a...
Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he has shifty eyes and funny shoes and he won't talk ...
There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly. And generally socially inept. Me being the notable exception, of course. Writers want to be special, because ...
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, secur...
So what? All writers are lunatics!
What do writers look like?
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.
I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination.
Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.
A writer without his country is nothing.
As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
