The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job. — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.” — Elizabeth Hernandez Copy Share Image
I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
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
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“and yet the original Writers at Work volumes, especially the first three, possessed a magic all their own. As a teenager, I… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters,… — Rodney Jerkins Copy Share Image
My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image