I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and... →
Jena Malone
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.
Thomas Malthus
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a... →
David Mamet
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
Henning Mankell
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always... →
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.