It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.