Writers Quotes

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.

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.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

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.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.