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

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino

If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino

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

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.
Norman Lear

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie

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

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Thomas Wolfe

My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks

I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone.
Nicholas Sparks

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown