The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
Salvatore Quasimodo
No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.
Jonathan Raban
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
Tom Rachman
At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your... →
I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.
Daniel Radcliffe
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly... →
Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified... →
David Rakoff
TV is a writer's medium.
Sara Ramirez
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
Harold Ramis
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
Ian Rankin