If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

She was a wonderful poet, a good short-story writer and a fine novelist.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.