Writers Quotes
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I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
John Searles -
Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.
Amanda Foreman
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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
William Faulkner -
Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
Al Pacino -
The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
Kiefer Sutherland -
I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
Emma Walton Hamilton -
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
Norm MacDonald -
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.
Nicola Roberts -
I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't get me wrong. Excellent, excellent musicians; great band; awesome harmony; great song writers; I just don't know anything besides, I guess, the popular songs on the radio.
Phil Anselmo Pantera -
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.
Donald Miller -
Hey, way to go. I bet our writers that no one would get that.
Alex Trebek -
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
Len Wein -
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!
Loudon Wainwright III -
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
Len Wein -
Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
Patrick Ness -
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A few writers by implication touched upon the true social issue, that equality of rights was an illusion to those lacking the means to use it.
Georges Lefebvre -
I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.
Candice Patton
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People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.
Charlize Theron -
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.
Lisa Edelstein -
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
Len Wein -
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.
Dan Castellaneta