Writers Quotes

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

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.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I do enjoy working with writers.

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.