Writers Quotes
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Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you're not there your art's not there. That's why we actors are often such self-centered objects.
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You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
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Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
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Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.
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The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
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The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.
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Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.
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Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed in.
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Real writers - serious writers with serious subjects, who earn their living at it - all seem to write in small rooms with that knotty-pine 1974 look on the top-floor rear of their houses. Rooms with views.
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We should not allow ourselves to believe that writers like Poe have more imagination than those who are content with describing things as they really are. It is surely easier to invent striking situations in this way than to tread the beaten track which intelligent minds have followed throughout the centuries.
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Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.
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Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.
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I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.
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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
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There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.
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I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.
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Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.
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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.
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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
