“Look, writers aren't perfect , I want to cry, any more than husbands and wives are perfect. The only unfailing rule is,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice… — Mike Tucker Copy Share Image
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a… — Hannah Strom-Martin Copy Share Image
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together… — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire... their style… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which… — Tim Conway Copy Share Image
There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great… — Neal McDonough Copy Share Image
I can sit in the room with the other writers and just keep saying no until there's something I really like or… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
The most despised sector of Hollywood are the writers. A good writer is quickly promoted to a 'concept man' - and then… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies,… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
