Austen Quote by Danielle Steel

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

— Richard Russo

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

“For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.”

— Dennis R. Miller

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it…

— Anne Tyler

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

— Rod Serling

There's something about somebody's first screenplay: it's like their whole life experience has kind of been bottled into it. They bring so much richness…

— Valerie Faris

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

— Beverly Cleary

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of…

— Hampton Fancher

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

— Barry Mann

“We’d had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and…

— Roger Ebert

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

— David Mitchell