It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
