Quotes About Art

Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

I'm always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should be.

As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

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

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

As an actor, I give 60 days to act in a film, but the writer takes nearly two to three years to create a story.

A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.

A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

Writers speak stench.