#writer

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#came #character #day #else #god

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#enough #got #heard #his #house

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#great #had #known #other #read

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#black #book #director #everybody #executive

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#career #classes #education #foundation #gave

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians. ↗

— Rosanne Cash

#i #musicians #who #writers

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. ↗

— John le Carre

#credible #every #fiction #fiction writer #knows

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#disagrees #i #i think #i write #like

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood