Writer Quotes

The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,

Nine times out of ten, I’m trying to meet someone else’s expectations, whether it’s the director or the writer or the animator

As I see it, my job as a writer isn’t to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we’ve chosen to govern ourselves.

Trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer’s intent.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.

I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.

I’m a writer, so I interview people all the time, and I think of it as being a very creative process. Giving interviews is actually one of the most creative parts of the film promotion process.