Hampton Fancher Quotes

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

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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
  • World
  • Angel
  • Writers

• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

  

  Oliver North
  • Writers
  • Readers

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writers
  • Thriller
  • Favourites

• Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • You
  • Try
  • Editors

• My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Me
  • Writers
  • Sensibility

• There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • You
  • Editors

• The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Age
  • Celebrity
  • Editors

• I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

  

  Jeff Abbott
  • Live
  • Creative
  • Lucky

• 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
  • Food
  • Vision
  • Writers

• 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
  • Writing
  • Joy
  • Writers

• When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Writing
  • Decision
  • Novel

• The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Music
  • May
  • Alone

• I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • Comedy
  • Parent
  • Writers

• Some things just have a short, beautiful life, and some things have a longer one. One hopes that the things that go a long time are things that you love. It's like a relationship. The longer things go, you have to really work on that relationship with your character, with your castmates, the crew your working for, the producers, and the writers.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Life
  • Love
  • Character

• I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Believe
  • Win
  • Race

• Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Trouble
  • Chronic
  • Grumblers

• I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Possibility

• I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

  

  Hampton Fancher
  • Writers
  • Editors