Writers Quotes
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I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.
Don Gibson -
Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
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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.
Donald Miller -
I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
Sara Bareilles -
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 love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy -
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.
Sadie Jones -
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North
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Writers are the highest paid secretaries in the world.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz -
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.
Adam Mansbach -
I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.
Evanna Lynch -
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.
Tahmoh Penikett -
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Ilya Ehrenburg -
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
Rita Dove -
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
Sinclair Lewis -
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.
Chuck Klosterman -
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed.
Marge Piercy -
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.
Michael O'Keefe
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
Vince Gilligan -
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
Karin Slaughter -
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
Arthur Ashe