Writer Quotes

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

When you’re tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.

I decided Widmore was the evilest of the evil, but in the end, not even the writers knew.