When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
David Morrell
I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason.
Errol Morris
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
John Mortimer
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
Kate Morton
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American... →
Bharati Mukherjee
I never wanted to be a writer.
Herta Muller
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera... →
Paul Muni
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake... →
Haruki Murakami
I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails... →
I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some... →