I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
Clifford Geertz
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
Elizabeth George
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective... →
Hugo Gernsback
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see... →
Tess Gerritsen
I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.
Alex Gibney
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
William Gibson
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to... →
Taylor Hackford
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions... →
Jane Haddam