I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
Randy Newman
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by... →
Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need... →
Larry Niven
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Christopher Nolan
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all... →
Amelie Nothomb
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
Lynn Nottage
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to... →
B. J. Novak
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor