Writers Quotes

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.