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- The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers…
- Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a…
- You should never settle for what you think is just good. You should drive the editors and writers and everybody nuts until it's great. And…
- You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only…
- Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.
- It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.
- Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other…
- This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large…
- Writers are engineers of human souls.
- Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound…
- I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.…
- I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most…
- As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is…
- If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as rewarding…
- They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there.…
- Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands…
- During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality,…
- One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to…
- You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.
- Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the…
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- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden