Writers Quotes
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Writers are so important.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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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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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 the highest paid secretaries in the world.
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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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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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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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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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We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.
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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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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 artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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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.
