Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.
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 novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
I would love to be a travel writer. I'd be so stoked.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of other television shows.
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway.
Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
