#writer

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#alone #best #looking #love #loves

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#around #go #go home #home #i

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#goal #got #high #high school #i

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#could #dresser #had #hair #i

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#anything #essential #experience #first #matter

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗