#writer

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#films #had #huge #i #last

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#even #him #loved #makes #more

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#help #only #professional #professional writer #reason

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. ↗

— Tim Roth

#ideas #me #might #reason #write

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

#driven #help #him #his #needs

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

#assure #cannot #discretion #easier #i

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#being #famous #i #imagined #jane

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

#adams #arranged #hire #james #jefferson

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#want #will #write #writer

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#became #because #been #big #big idea