Quotes About Writer

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

The fact remains that I am a very artless and incompetent writer.

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

The Internet makes the writer work harder - I have to say things here I've never said before, or else be caught out in repeating myself.

My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No.

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.

I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a writer.

I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which I don't think even Hollywood does.

My ambition in life is to be associated with a good film. And I feel that a writer has a more important role to play for the society than an actor.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.

There is nothing more refreshing for an editor than to meet a writer or read a query that takes him completely by surprise

I understood Truman Capote's brilliant assessment of the writer's dilemma: "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip.

Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.