Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
