Writers Quotes
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Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
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Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
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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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All good writers speak in honest voices and tell the truth.
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What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.
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I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.
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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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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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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.
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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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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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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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Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
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The reason there are no great poets and writers now is because there are no great deeds or heroes to write about. The world is becoming tame and sad and dreary.
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Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.
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As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
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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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You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business. So, if you've got a writer who's clever enough to give you enough clues, you will fill out every blank spot in a play, every single one.
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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
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Writers of literature make very little money.
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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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There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.
