Writers Quotes

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All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel. — Ira Berkow
All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place… — Matthew Ashford
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention,… — Larry Brooks
If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while… — Larry Brooks
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild… — Penelope Spheeris
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties… — D. Michael Quinn
Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers,… — Ron Franscell
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the… — Ron Franscell
I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always… — Fay Godwin
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention… — Thornton Wilder
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about… — Anatole Broyard
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free… — David Guterson
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. — Joseph Fiennes
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. — Mark Haddon
All bad writers are in love with the epic. — Ernest Hemingway
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — Elwyn Brooks White
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs. — Ernest Hemingway
Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past. — Annie Dillard
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — V. S. Pritchett
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey
The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. — Timothy West
Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine du Plessix Gray

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