Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood,… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I think it's important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut - but… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
“I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
I'm living in a world where the sky is foreign and everything seems so strange. I need two things in all the… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're… — Patricio Pron Copy Share Image
We're always open to working with other writers, producers, and contributors for channelAPA. In hindsight, the goal is to develop our content… — Steve Nguyen Copy Share Image
“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make… — Suyog Ketkar Copy Share Image
Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I… — Lee Hazlewood Copy Share Image
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24',… — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
![“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one is to produce anything vital and hence lasting…” quote by Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fb/gustave-flaubert-354_books_to-return-to-antiquity-in-literature-tha_2381872.jpg)
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