Dream Quote by Anonymous

I realized than an author cannot also be a producer.

— Sergio Leone

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

— Kip Winger

As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.

— Flannery O'Connor

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

— Edna Ferber

“Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature. He’d do this for free, not that he…

— Gabrielle Zevin

In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.

— Theodor Adorno

“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn’t get paid for it.”

— Irwin Shaw

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

— Nelson Algren

I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself.

— Robert Christgau

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue