Writer Quotes

I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

I’m not really a mass market writer.

If you’re a writer, you’re always working.

I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.

That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.

I value my correspondence with writers…

One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.