Good Quote by Ben Hecht

Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The rest of…

— Ben Hecht

I think there is a huge difference between writers who have very big sales, and writers who have small sales. Even writers with very…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A good writer takes time to go in-depth into a subject and then comes out with a good script. Then it's the job of…

— Johnny Lever

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a…

— Ben Hecht

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the…

— Christopher Reeve

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is…

— Norman Mailer

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

— Frederick Lenz

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

— Colson Whitehead

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King