Writers Quotes

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.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.