Writers Quotes
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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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Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
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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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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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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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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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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 didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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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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I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.
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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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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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Writers are the highest paid secretaries in the world.
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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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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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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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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.
