I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach one that writing is hard work and two that you have to give up a great deal of life your personal life to be a writer.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Apart from a few simple principles the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said 'I'm a writer ' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.