#writer

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#having #his #hitchcock #i #just

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #felt #getting #i #leading

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#culture #dreams #else #feel #i

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charles #couple #i #journalist #long

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#talking #writers #humor

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. ↗

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial. ↗

— John Grisham

#been #being #doubt #dreamed #ever

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #catch #fiction #good #great

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

I'm a writer who just happens to draw. ↗

— Matt Groening

#happens #i #just #who #writer