I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.