Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.
TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.
Rarely ever see or meet the writer during shooting.
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.