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

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Henry James

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Mary Oliver

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
Sandra Cisneros

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
Sandra Cisneros

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
Stephen Sondheim

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Stephen Sondheim

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Paul Valery

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
William Shatner

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.
David Cross

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
Margaret Atwood

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Gwendolyn Brooks

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
Michael J. Fox

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Sarah McLachlan

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling