#writer

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#day #demands #each #fear #fiction

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#his #needs #out #walks #wants

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#any #cable #chases #king #now

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#few #film #going #great #indie

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#comedy #especially #going #hard #i

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#central #dead #enjoy #how #i

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#every #finally #gets #how #know

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#independent #influence #outside #person #society

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#alter #aspire #consciousness #deep #infiltrate

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

#five #were #writers