Writers Quotes
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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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The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.
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Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.
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The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
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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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Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.
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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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No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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We’re creating our own masters with writers who are not signed to labels, creating sync masters to put into the marketplace.
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The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!
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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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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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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so.
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Most writers are successful in getting their readers’ attention, but fail at getting them to think. If you’re asked to explain anything philosophical to anyone, the chances are great their understanding will be superficial; it’s best they don’t understand than to think they do, so encourage them to grow into understanding and don’t hand them too much explanation.
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I may be the person who put "dieselpunk" into the conversation. I have always been a reader who reads in a really broad way. I read genre writers and I read literary fiction and I read books by dead people.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
