Writer Quotes

I’m a writer more than I am a talker.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.