Hampton Fancher Quotes
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.Hampton Fancher
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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 -
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 -
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven -
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 -
Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig -
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy -
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Walter Jon Williams -
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
Carine Roitfeld -
The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
Felix Dennis -
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
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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 alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost -
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.
James Boswell -
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
James Norman Hall -
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.
John Stuart Mill
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No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?
Ethel Smyth -
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
T. S. Eliot -
Reform is not a period of retreat.
David Remnick -
Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.
R. A. Torrey -
Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
Arthur Rimbaud -
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.
Hampton Fancher