Writers Quotes
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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.
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I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.
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I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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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.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
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I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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Writers are the highest paid secretaries in the world.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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When I first did The Tracey Ullman Show, there were times when I could offer a solution on stage, and I could understand the writers.
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When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are in Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise. That's just the fact of the matter.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.
