The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
