I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
My youngest son is a writer. He wrote for 'The District' and 'CSI: NY.'
I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
As a writer of colour, you have to be victim or perpetrator.
