#writer

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#artist #credits #enough #figured #had

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#between #contemporary #descendants #differences #early

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#ignorance #ignorant #presume #understand #understanding

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#because #everything #falling #had #i

The head writer loves that my character is a boor. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#head #loves #writer

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters. ↗

— David Crane

#complimentary #designers #enjoyed #game #games

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#books #changes #control #copyright #editorial

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#completely #different #different people #different place #drained

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#absolute freedom #become #compensation #fool #freedom