Quotes About Writer

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.

Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.

I read tons of comic books. My favourite is Grant Morrison, a Scottish comic writer.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.