#writer

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. ↗

— John Sebastian

#father #mother #musician #writer

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one. ↗

— Lisa See

#art form #book #completely #different #film

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#before #first #hollywood #i #reader

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#featured #graduated #i #live #night

It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#always #cartoonist #deeper #enough #feel

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#cartoonists #great #myth #people #tv

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#attributes #exhausted #get #one thing #profession

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#else #i #idea #letting #liked

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#only #readers #span #will #writers