I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
I'm definitely a writer. I don't even know how to freestyle.
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
Television? It's a gateway to writer's block, isn't it?
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
