Writer Quotes

And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery.

I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.

What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.

So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long – 20 years or so – I felt that it would be daft to go to one’s grave without having directed. It’s a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.