Writers Quote by Matt Wallace

“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”

— Jason E. Hodges

Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair,…

— Ayelet Waldman

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety…

— John Henry Newman

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

— George S. Kaufman

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing his work.…

— Shane Black

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

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

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

— Andrew Davies

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer will turn…

— Terence Winter

I think writers are born, not made.

— Elizabeth Berg