Writers Quotes
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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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Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.
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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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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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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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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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No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.
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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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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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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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Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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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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Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.
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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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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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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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.
