I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.
Gene Wilder

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
Sidney Sheldon

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
Alanis Morissette

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Joyce Carol Oates

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
Antonio Tabucchi

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Sylvester Stallone

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
Thomas Mann

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
Naguib Mahfouz

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
Naguib Mahfouz

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Naguib Mahfouz

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
Naguib Mahfouz

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.
Jennifer Lopez

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Isaac Bashevis Singer