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I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

— Shelby Foote writer

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

— James Franco writer

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

— Sia Furler writer

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

— Alan Furst writer

I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

— Dan Futterman writer

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

— Ernest Gaines writer

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.

— Jason Gann writer

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

— Jane Gardam writer

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

— Helen Garner writer

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

— Elizabeth George writer

I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.

— Sara Gilbert writer

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy writer

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

— Nikki Giovanni writer

When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.

— Ilana Glazer writer

Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.

— Donald Glover writer

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

— Jane Goldman writer

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

— Nadine Gordimer writer

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

— Howard Gordon writer

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

— Sue Grafton writer

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

— Lee Grant writer

As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

— Adam Green writer

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said, 'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.

— Seth Green writer

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.

— Richard Greenberg writer

I've always been a very prolific writer.

— Nanci Griffith writer

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

— Jay Griffiths writer

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

— John Grisham writer

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

— Lev Grossman writer

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

— David Guterson writer

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

— Jessica Hagedorn writer

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

— Jennifer Hale writer

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

— Katori Hall writer

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

— Tom T. Hall writer

A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

— Barry Hannah writer

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

— Sophie Hannah writer

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

— Paul Harding writer

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.

— Frank Harris writer

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

— Doug Harvey writer

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

— Noah Hathaway writer

Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden writer

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

— Joseph Haydn writer

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

— Ben Hecht writer

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

— Patricia Highsmith writer

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

— Walter Hill writer

I am not a writer.

— Megan Hilty writer

The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.

— Andrea Hirata writer

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.

— Alger Hiss writer

A writer without his country is nothing.

— Marek Hlasko writer

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

— Amanda Hocking writer

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.

— Jenny Holzer writer

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

— Colleen Hoover writer

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

— James D Houston writer

We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.

— Guy Gavriel Kay writer

Im a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them.

— Ariel Levy writer

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

— Mordecai Richler writer

Ive got Americas best writer for $300 a week.

— Jack L Warner writer

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer youre just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

— Joy Williams writer

Stan: Oh, I tell a great story and Im a liar, but Harry Potter does it and hes your favorite writer.

— American Dad!/Season 2 writer

Stewie: I have a voice. You understand that? A writer needs a voice and I have one. You dont. Your play panders to the lowest common denominator, Brian. And it doesnt even do that well!

— Family Guy/Season 11 writer

Who: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

— Last words writer

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

— P. G. Wodehouse writer

Frank Skinner: I tell you whats always frustrated me, and that is that on a standard typewriter keyboard, when you hit the semicolon, you just have to hit the key. But to get the colon, you have to press that other key. If I was a colon, Id think: Surely I take precedence. You are merely a semi version of me! I should be the one that just needs one key!

— QI writer

I feel like you cant stop me now, Im tighter now, More of a writer now, Than a rapper now, Got me payin taxes now, Cant relax now, Got big corporations, sending me faxes now, More than just Yo now, CEO now.

— Yo Gotti writer

Dr. Charles Montgomery: A writer writes, a surgeon cuts. I think you will find these pieces more portable.

— American Horror Story writer

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

— G C Georg Christoph Lichtenberg writer

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

— Joseph Joubert writer

Magnum: So, Jessica, what do you say we make a deal? If you dont take out a private investigators license, I wont buy a typewriter.

— Murder She Wrote writer

Rainbow Dash: Maybe for your normal, run-of-the-mill ponies. But Im far too busy saving lives to stop and write. Thats why I hired Spike as my ghost writer.

— My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic writer

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

— Rod Serling writer

Im a fairly undisciplined writer.

— Neil Gaiman writer

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

— Paul Valery writer

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

— William Faulkner writer

Writer: I think, youve set the stage. So far we have an Indian boy named after a French swimming pool, on a Japanese ship full of animals, heading to Canada.

— Life of Pi film writer

Gerald Olin: You do drink dont you?Mike Enslin: Of course. I just said I was a writer.

— 1408 2007 writer

Im 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but heres why... Im a merchandiser, Im not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

— Mickey Spillane writer

Nini Legs-In-The-Air: This endings silly. Why would the courtesan go for the penniless writer? Whoops. I mean sitar player.

— Moulin Rouge 2001 writer

Every writer Ive ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

— Stephen Sondheim writer

Laura Petrie: You wanna end up another Dwight Heatherton, go ahead!Rob Petrie: Whos that?Laura Petrie: Dwight Heatheron happens to be an excellent writer who is unknown because he gets no publicity.Rob Petrie: Then how do you know him?Laura Petrie: Oh Rob, hes *famous*.

— The Dick Van Dyke Show TV Series 1961–1966 writer

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

— W Somerset Maugham writer

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.

— Dylan Thomas writer

The Violencia that ravaged Colombia for the next decade, pitting Liberals against the ruling Conservatives, took 200,000 lives – a catastrophe worse than any endured in Peru. This was the historical background to Márquez’s early career as a journalist and writer. But he seems to have remained eerily untouched by it.

— Perry Anderson writer

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.

— Charles Peguy writer

You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights.

— Elvis Costello writer

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

— Francis Ford Coppola writer

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

— Gregory Nunn writer

Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before

— John Kenneth Galbraith writer

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: How do we live?

— John Malkovich writer

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

— Leo Rosten writer

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt ridden one; or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag writer

Kermit the Frog: Welcome to The Muppet Show. We have great show tonight, Because our special guest star a famous director, screen writer, and the star of the popular movie called Rocky, Sylvester Stallone.

— The Muppet Show writer

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V S Naipaul writer

A writer who is sharply critical of some positions runs the risk of being more widely applauded or resented than understood.Section 2 pp. 5-6

— Walter Kaufmann philosopher writer

Ive always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

— Neil Diamond writer

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great.

— Paul Reiser writer

Alexis: You act like this is all about her. But you were standing right next to her; you could have been shot. Hell, I could have been shot! You need to grow up, dad. Youre a writer, not a cop. Stop pretending.

— Castle TV series writer

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

— Douglas Kennedy writer

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

— Edward Albee writer

[talking about Anna Scott]Writer: Oh, I see she took your grandmothers flowers.William: Yeah... bitch.

— Notting Hill 1999 writer

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