Writers Quotes

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.