I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers,… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
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I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My writing process is very feedback based - I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting...… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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Realistic writing kept me stable. It kept my mind less clustered by resting my soul; pouring it onto a blank canvas. I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Capitol Records were very keen for me to write and see how I got on; I think that is what defined my… — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
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Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train… — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs,… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
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What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
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