#writer

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#cannot #face #him #his #never

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#frightened #i #like #more #movies

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#books #british #british museum #might #monkeys

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#make #out #riddle #someone #who

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#director #get #go #help #i

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#businessman #haven #i #know #life

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #had #her #his #i

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#come #healing #nothing #realization #right

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#first #importance #must #out #proportion

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#classical #coherent #ending #enough #feel