#writer

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#comes #directors #history #i #interest

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#report #responsibility #singer-songwriter

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#because #been #body #creating #defined

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in. ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#humor #writer #funny

Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#awry #been #character #creating #everybody

I really wanted to be a writer. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#really #wanted #writer

I'm the luckiest writer on earth. ↗

— George Michael

#i #luckiest #writer

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#augustine #common #i #make #me

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#disturb #goal #more #than #writer

It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and moving out into the world more. ↗

— Rick Moody

#am #conquered #conquering #ghetto #having