Quotes About Authorship

I want to be a writer someday.

Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line.

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.

The writer is all alone.

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing?

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this life of a writer was not so hopeless, not so bad.

I am a writer who happens to use some tools of journalism.

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My father was a very prolific writer and he left behind a huge body of unpublished work.