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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

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

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.