Writers Quotes

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

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

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

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.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.