The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. Isadora Duncan
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels. Quentin Tarantino
I'm not really a writer, so my main problem always is finding the writing talent to write something of the caliber that you would like to do. Rowan Atkinson
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
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway People
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. William Faulkner Art Listening Artist
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. Maya Angelou
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema. Jim Jarmusch
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. Ernest Hemingway
Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. Stefan Zweig
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. Mika Waltari
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
