Books Quote by Amitava Kumar

If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect you to…

— Dave Barry

The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers…

— George Saunders

“I have a comedy writer friend, Sandy, whose husband left her for another woman the moment his restaurant (which Sandy had invested in and…

— Mindy Kaling

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

— Macaulay

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

— Abbi Jacobson

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively…

— Colin Hay

To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that…

— Anatole Broyard

When I close my eyes and think of a writer, I don't imagine him or her as someone who is sitting above me on…

— Amitava Kumar

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too…

— Dennis Farina

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects…

— Joyce Carol Oates

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler