Writers Quotes

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.