I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
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There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Writers, by their very nature, live a thousand lives and die a thousand times. They experience loss each time a character dies. … — Larry Ray Palmer Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except… — Wolcott Gibbs Copy Share Image
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in… — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
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Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became… — Vivian Vande Velde Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters.… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
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Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
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We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people… — Letitia Wright 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
“We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
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