The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer’s script and actors’ performances. – George Cukor
Memory is not particularly linear – it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional. – Dana Spiotta
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear. – Patrick deWitt
I wanted to be Carrie Vaughn the awesome writer, not the chick who writes the ‘Kitty’ books. – Carrie Vaughn
There isn’t any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it. – Dermot Healy
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to ‘The New Yorker.’ – Diane Mott Davidson
Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word ‘Dickensian’ could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications. – Matthew Pearl
I’m a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book. – Mickey Spillane
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself. – Melvin Maddocks
I’m basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren’t interested in ideas. The English, I’m afraid, are totally brainless. – Colin Wilson
I’d never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. – China Mieville
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway