#writer

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old. ↗

— John Frusciante

#being #better #clearer #doing #feel

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#dead #feel #i #idea #much

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. ↗

— Dane Cook

#director #doing #producer #sometimes #stand-up

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #say #than #they say #writers

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#easily #i #lucky #me #plots

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#destruction #good #help #literature #much

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#force #go #him #himself #his

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there. ↗

— Taylor Dane

#fair #felt #get #going #i

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#call #dies #does #hard #i