I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes,… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with… — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan Copy Share Image
A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy… — Leland Dirks Copy Share Image
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers. — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors,… — Carla Gugino 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
