The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
I'm a much better writer for being a father.
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
Though a fine writer, Scott Spencer will forever be associated with a cheesy, sentimental film starring the vapid box-office draw Brooke Shields.
By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.
I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.
I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
