Good writers Quote by Peter Greenaway

“Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.”

Peter Greenaway

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by Peter Greenaway

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Peter Greenaway

Image

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

Peter Greenaway

Image

To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the…

Peter Greenaway

Image

An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A…

Peter Greenaway

Image

I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.

Peter Greenaway

Image

There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow…

Peter Greenaway

Image

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

Peter Greenaway

Image

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Peter Greenaway

Image

I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.

Peter Greenaway

Image

My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are…

Peter Greenaway

Image

There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We…

Peter Greenaway

Image

Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the…

Peter Greenaway

Image

Explore all 166 Peter Greenaway quotes

More Good writers quotes

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your…

Peter Abrahams

Image

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off…

Lorde

Image

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…

Jim Bishop

Image

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Dan Harmon

Image

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art…

David Hockney

Image

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Baron de Montesquieu

Image

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

Andy Rooney

Image

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Gary Shteyngart

Image

Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just…

Tori Amos

Image

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

Jakucho Setouchi

Image

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced…

Rod Serling

Image

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

R. A. Lafferty

Image

Browse all 138 Good writers quotes

Good writers Quote by Peter Greenaway

Related quotes

More by Peter Greenaway

More Good writers quotes