Writers Quotes · Page 43

Definitely, I feel that there is a need for more female producers, directors, and writers.

— Farhan Akhtar

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

— Jim Lee

“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.”

— Maryann Gestwicki

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

— Eric Morecambe

New writers don't throw tantrums, they have time. I can make them work on one song for a week.

— Rajesh Roshan

“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.”

— Orson Scott Card

I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada.

— Robert J. Sawyer

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and…

— Sara Paretsky

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting…

— Nicole Ari Parker

I'm exhausted from the nonexistent bullshit my mind makes up. To suffer from imagination rather than from reality has got to be…

— Needa Muy

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would…

— Sharon Kay Penman

Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to…

— Tatiana Maslany

I never wanted to be a literary writer. I wanted to be an entertainer. All I wanted was to give what a…

— M.C. Beaton

“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”

— Jacob Nordby

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open.…

— William S. Burroughs

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And…

— Noah Hawley

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…

— Bruce Sterling

“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to…

— L.L. Barkat

I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to…

— Veronica Roth

The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at…

— Ana Castillo

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers…

— Anonymous

“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab.…

— Bennett Cerf

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of…

— Jed Whedon

Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.

— Ruth Ware

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

— Felice Picano

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

— Rob Urbinati

“That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.”

— Christy Hall

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.”

— Phillip Athans

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

— Molly Shannon

My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for…

— Vanessa Kirby

“Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.”

— Christy Hall

Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one.

— Judith Rascoe

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!”

— Leslie Austin

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

— James Lasdun

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

— Karl Kraus