Writer Quotes

The guys that write Once Upon a Time were major writers on Lost,

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories…The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.

Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:

Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you must write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go. It’s not enough to write simply because you think it would be neat to be published. You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters.