Quotes About Writing

I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers.

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want to go to a party. I just want to stay home and read my murder mysteries and try to write and cook dinner.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer.

Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.

'Writer's block' sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the characters and the information you bring into the room.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

I have always been a letter writer, and I found when my numbers got over half a million, I couldn't think about how many people there were out there. I had to think as if I were writing a letter to my brothers and sisters, to my good friends with whom I have had a correspondence since I could hold a pen.

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.