Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.Friedrich Nietzsche
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
Nathan Fillion -
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North -
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven -
Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig -
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
Tanith Lee -
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
Malcolm de Chazal -
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
Vikas Swarup -
I know who the great poets are.
Jack Kerouac -
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman -
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
Amanda Hocking
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Gaston Bachelard -
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
Len Wein -
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
Len Wein -
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
Leon Uris -
I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Abraham Lincoln
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The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
Morgan Freeman -
People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
Ian Fleming -
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche