Burke Dennings: Shall we summon the writer? He's in Paris. Chris MacNeil: Hiding? Burke Dennings: Fucking.
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.
Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.
I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
