A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers of the soul of the society.
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.
Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.
They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers, and people kind of forget that sometimes.
The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.
We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
