I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

…a great future behind him, already

She doesn’t understand that a writer is a special creature–that I’m different from everyone else. I’m not saying I’m superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

I’ve never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don’t ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it’s free.

I learn my world through writing.

I didn’t need to be a writer to know that I could. Did you have to become a penis to act like a dick?

A writer must be a lifelong reader to be good. And if you want to be a great writer, I’d suggest trying to live a long life by reading the ingredients of the foods you...

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing.

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

Sometimes you can write about a character’s day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.

Confront the page that taunts you with its whiteness. Face your enemy and fill it with words. You are bigger and stronger than a piece of paper.

If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know where you’re going, and each word you write gets you a...

I write sentence to sentence. That’s the kind of writer I am. I don’t have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

Writing fiction is one of the greatest forms of empathy. It’s not enough to simply write from the perspective of your characters…you have to feel what they feel.

I don’t think all writers are sad, she said.I think it’s the other way around—all sad people write.

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.

There’s something beautiful about facing tragedy, you crack open a new, you find yourself in the parts of you; that can finally be explored freely with out judgement or guilt. Where to from here doesn’t...

I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anything at all I’m at least believing in...

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

She had the power to change the world but she couldn’t save the one she loved.

Authors are sick people.

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

TV is a writer’s medium.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I’m not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

You can never know enough about your characters

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don’t know how I’d feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

A fine writer must appreciate and accept the power of language manifestly.

I’m like a unicorn; I’m a midlist writer who hasn’t done anything else but write. But because I wasn’t amazingly famous, I didn’t become Stephanie Meyer, or even a huge literary name like a Jonathan...

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they’re not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the...

To be a great writer, you must be nomadic. I’d recommend the hunter/gatherer lifestyle for anybody serious about being nonsensical.

Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don’t say “Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don’t...

All Quiet on the Western Front.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

Listen to advice. You don’t know how many writer’s conferences I’ve taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

I would never make up a character who didn’t exist or an event that didn’t transpire. If you’re a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith’s trunk. Behind Tacy’s house the sun had set. A wind had...

My way of dealing with the world has always been to make fun of it and observe it but not take part in it. That’s how I became a writer. But when you have kids,...

The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you...

If it’s your greatest dream, you wouldn’t give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it’s not going to be...