Quotes About Writer

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.

Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.

Now, I take it for granted that the real relationship is not with the writer but with the writing, that it's on the page where we find the deepest sympathies

The great message that we call the gospel begins, then, not with us, or our need, or even the meeting of that need, but with the writer of the news and the sender of its heralds: God himself.

I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

As the writer of the lyric of the song 'God's Country,' I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.