Art Quote by Darryl F. Zanuck Download Open image “Writers are idiots with Underwoods.” — Darryl F. Zanuck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Entertainment Idiot Writing
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of… — Hannah Strom-Martin Copy Share Image
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. — Darryl F. Zanuck Copy Share Image
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless. — Darryl F. Zanuck Copy Share Image
If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. — Darryl F. Zanuck Copy Share Image
“Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captured after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring… — Darryl F. Zanuck Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image