Writers Quotes

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.