Money Quote by William Boyd

“All you had to say was, 'I am a writer,' and you became one. You didn't even have to write anything. You could just…

— Lewis Black

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On…

— Zach Braff

Once the travel guide came out and won an award, once I got an MFA in creative writing, once I sold my next novel,…

— James Bernard Frost

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember…

— Rhianna Pratchett

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

— Brandon Sanderson

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

You know, you get a bad review as a writer, you remember it for 10 years. You get a hundred good reviews, you forget…

— Mohsin Hamid

The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who…

— Maurice Blanchot

“A writer should remember that about his muse there is a great deal of the Siren. He should view his mental offspring as relentlessly…

— F.L. Lucas

“‎Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.”

— Dipesh Nepal

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I…

— Claes Oldenburg