Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
Terry Southern
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Wole Soyinka
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
No writer has a right to make that much money. Indeed, without diabolical assistance, no writer can.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
Hal Sparks
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first... →
Nicholas Sparks
I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.