I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with a limited electorate -- just like the one the writers of our Constitution meant this country to be. When these white Christian patriots sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, there were no black citizens for them to worry about.
George Lincoln Rockwell
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
W. Somerset Maugham
When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, because he takes so many things from me and other writers.
Sherman Alexie
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The term "comics" long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. "Sequential Art" is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.
Will Eisner
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
Gabrielle Roy
Writers traditionally see themselves and are perceived as acting in the solitude of their rooms, doing their work. They can only survive if they have an audience and engage in the process with others.
John Briggs
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Victor Hugo
Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate: as a performer, a writer and a friend. We worked together since 1965 and we never had a cross word. It was 40 years of harmonious joy, nothing but an absolute pleasure. I will miss him terribly, but he went out on a lift.
Ronnie Corbett
The submissions were overwhelming. There's more writers trying to get songs into movies than you could shake a stick at.
Bill Borden
The human heart doesn't change that much, ... I think they're a few writers where you don't understand where their talent comes from. Those kind of artists speak inherent emotional truths we'll always be attached to.
Joe Wright
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Noah Webster
As a writer, I was writing for the Jane Wyman Theater, that was an anthology, and The Dick Powell Show was an anthology, and then the Danny Thomas Hour, and then Playhouse 90.
Aaron Spelling
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
Alice Childress
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose.
Fred Allen
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
William Styron
They started doing it in reality TV, where writers don't have union protections and are easy marks for getting this kind of material in there. You're less likely to find it on network prime-time series, but the creep is moving in that direction. It has become intrusive and overwhelming to us as a union of writers.
Patric M. Verrone
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.
Francoise Sagan
I just think the whole message within the song fits with today's themes. It fits with the majority of stuff that David writes about.
Dan Donegan
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus
Both the Democratic and the Republican parties stand for equality of all people. We have no room in our party, it seems to me, for someone who writes the things that he's written in the last year.
Warren Rudman
Dahl was a very shrewd cookie. He was an expedient writer who would use anything to make an impact in a book. He saw what worked; his books are full of effects and good scenes. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , there are fantastic scenes of demolishing this person, getting rid of that person - all very high-powered stuff.
Peter Hunt
We've had three or four scripts written, and we've never quite nailed what we wanted to do. We've got a new writer. A very famous writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner indeed. I can't name him because I don't know the situation at the moment. You can't tell someone's life story in two hours on film.
Roger Daltrey
You don't want to be too worried about the marketplace or what's commercial, or what's on TV or in the movies right now. What started us was writing this very personal romantic comedy script that never got made, but was about very personal things to us and showcased our voice as writers. People responded to that and started to open doors because of that.
Adam Horowitz
Bellow is a very important writer for me, and the summer I spent reading him in Germany sparked my desire to dabble in fiction myself. So I'm especially excited to be recognized for my tribute to the late, great Mr. B.
Michael Griffith
Robert called me and said, "I'm gonna be working with this guy Conan O'Brien who's taking over Letterman's show. Do you wanna meet him, maybe get a job as a writer on the show?" And I said yeah, I'm tired of eating baloney. I had started to apply for day jobs, which up till that point I had been able to avoid for three years, you know, waiting on tables or whatever.
Andy Richter
If film and television producers do not reach an agreement with the writers, it (Los Angeles) could take a U-turn back to the days of high unemployment and economic recession.
Richard Riordan
[Rick McCallum, who served as producer on the recent Star Wars films, revealed to Now Playing Magazine some of the details of the two upcoming TV series based on the franchise created by George Lucas.] The live-action television series is something we're planning for just at the beginning of 2007, ... We're just starting to interview writers and trying to really figure out which direction [to go].
Rick Mccallum
Luc Besson, the writer and producer, saw my picture at an agency and wanted to meet me.
Kate Nauta
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Van Doren
My co-writer and myself were talking about the whole thing, and he just stood up and said, 'It makes you want to just look these people in the eye and say, 'Have you forgotten?' ... I got chills all over my body because I knew that was the title of the song that we were going to write that day.
Darryl Worley
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
James T. Farrell
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
V. S. Naipaul
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
Kazuo Ishiguro
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
Ellen Goodman
Pepper Dennis. Not only do they have a great voice as they have proven on 'Pepper Dennis,' but they're very versatile writers who are valuable for the studio in having them support other shows.
Gary Newman
I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. ...When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others ... But slowly, by what process I have no idea, your own writing tends to crystallize, to take shape. Yet you've learned some moves from all these guys and they are somehow incorporated into your own style. Pretty soon you're not imitating any longer.
Fred Smith
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Joseph Fiennes
I have never received an award or honor that will be more cherished than this because it was given by my peers. The former winners are a distinguished collection of some of the finest sports writers in American history. To be included in that group is humbling and overwhelming. I hope that my future work will prove that I am indeed worthy. I will strive to live up to the honor.
Tim Smith
The line was certainly firmly drawn between TV and features at one point, but it has really been blurred. Every writer I know now is moving back and forth between both worlds.
Jason Smilovic
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain De Botton
But they've been fearless about it. There hasn't been a moment of doubt or a suggestion to make it more traditional. We have no 'indignant writer' stories to tell.
Carter Bays
People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
Charlie Norwood
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus
There are people who venerate Hemingway who have never read Hemingway. It's not Hemingway the writer they're in love with, it's the active outdoorsman.
Michael Reynolds
I love writers for going on 20 years. It has been an honor to work on their behalf. For myself, I'm going to take some time off to smell the horses.
Cheryl Rhoden
The long-standing partnership between the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the American Theatre Critics Association has recognized some of today's greatest writers, and helped identify the great playwrights of tomorrow. We're delighted to help support the unique telling of tales on the American stage.
Jim Steinberg
It's a wonderful film about a writer who is obsessed with his love for the Boston Red Sox, ... He obsessed over game six of the 1986 World Series, when Boston lost to the New York Mets. When we finished the movie, Boston had won the World Series... History caught up with it.
Tom Aldredge
I know Helen would be proud, using her as a springboard for the voices of future poets. She was a pen in the hand of God. She had a natural talent and found the proper marketplace to sell her wares. And I know we have talented and gifted writers in this community.
Mary Hilaire Tavenner
[If you are a lover of the carefully crafted sentence, if] more isn't enough ... the worst writer of his generation.
Patrick Moody
I am proud to be the hero of an amazing person and writer, who indeed has made his own significant contribution to society.
Gordon Banks
You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Nancy was a writer with a lot of soul. That's something that most critics either don't have the opportunity to share with you or just can't. She had the kind of humanity that is embracing. It was always a surprise to see the tremendous artistry of her writing, the wit and flair. I really liked her. She'll be missed, that's for sure.
Tony Taccone
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
I wrote some three hundred pages, threw most of them out, and started over. The novel seemed to require a maturity and breadth of vision I didn't yet have. What I discovered was that this maturity and vision accrues gradually over the course of many days, months, years of struggling to be a better writer.
John Dalton
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.
Brian W. Aldiss
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.
Luis Bunuel
You want to know the color of my underwear, too? ... You guys are starting to ask questions like the Japanese writers used to.
Ichiro Suzuki
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise.
Scott Mccloud
During the course of a year I work with a lot of different Indian musicians, often in situations where I'm playing more of a classical Indian performance, ... At the same time, as a writer and composer I'm trying to figure out how to bring in some of the abstraction that exists in jazz.
George Brooks
I assumed that the collaboration between the writer and artist would be fairly intimate, a lot of back and forth. But it's not like the old days when they were all together in New York, working out of the famed Marvel bullpen.
Charlie Huston
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
When we needed to find a hippie bookstore that sold secondhand books, I thought of Abandoned Planet (518 Valencia St.), which is right across the street from where I used to live, ... When I was a starving writer-director-actor, I'd go to the Muddy Waters Cafe (521 Valencia St.) every day, buy a $3.50 burrito and eat half for lunch, half for dinner.
Muddy Waters
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
William Rose Benet
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
David Simon
Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.
Paul Levitz
Hemingway is a cultural bridge between the two cultures, the two people. We're not working toward any political end, just to preserve the historical memory of a US writer who lived many years here.
Gladys Rodriguez
Girl, make sure you get a job 'cause some writers can't even afford to eat.
Alice Faye
Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - stars, directors, choreographers, song writers, conductors, arrangers. All worked under contract at regular salaries. To gather people like that today would be enormously costly.
George Sidney
It is an honor to illustrate for such an amazing writer as J.K. Rowling. She gives me, as an illustrator, so much to work with.
Mary Grandpre
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.
Ambrose Bierce
Wendy was a good friend. She was as well a writer of enormous talent and generous spirit. Her works brought joy to many.
Victoria Wilson
What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
Kurt Vonnegut
Scientists do their best work when they are in their early years. Writers' skills don't necessarily decay; if they can keep their interests and hopes alive (like Jack Williamson), their experience allows them greater depths to explore.
James Gunn
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.
Jim Bishop
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
William G. Golding
[Sex talk] was one of the tools of the trade of being a writer on a show that dealt with sexual themes.
Adam Levin
If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail, ... I assume the writer is in middle school. E-mail is today's form of a postal letter.
Alexandra Robbins
(We had) the author of 'Holes,' Louis Sachar, go to the Staples Center and had 18,000 to 20,000 students go to Regal theaters throughout the country. He (presented) a writing seminar on what it's like to be a writer, what it's like to have your book made into a film.
David Weil
[By: JAY PARIS - Staff Writer SAN DIEGO ---- Darren Sproles is contemplating how deep is deep at Invesco Field at Mile High.] If it's real deep, I'm not going to bring it out, ... But if it's like 2 yards? Yeah, I'll bring it out.
Darren Sproles
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Sidonie Gabrielle
The writer dreams of being the sculptor of words and the painter of ideas.
Paul Carvel
He actually reads and writes it better than he speaks it which suggests to me it won't be long before he picks up the language.
Kenny Jackett
I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.
Donald Mckay
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
John Gould
I'm the writer of the movie, and I still don't know what I want it to say. But I do know that this town is going to spend years recovering. And in six months, people will have forgotten us. We'll need something to remind America about this place.
Glen Pitre
It's a challenge to have different writers' songs sound like they belong in the same place.
Jesse Emerson
Natalie is a wonderful writer. Her insight in her writing is older than her years. I had a feeling when I first read her essay that it would be chosen as the winner. Natalie has a great future.
Marilyn Harris
The writers wanted to address the perception that our neighborhoods are only about violence and drugs.
Abram Himelstein
There's no connection between how someone drives and whether they make a claim based on whether they're a doctor or a writer for a newspaper.
Neil Cohen
I remember when I saw the rough cut of the series, even with all the little drawings in place of the special effects, I was so pleased at how interested and attached I become to the other characters. I'm a very critical viewer, but this became "real" to me. I'm fascinated by other realities and other realms and I think they exist - and when you have a good writer, it becomes palpable.
Mary Mcdonnell
The list of successful writers, poets, artists, and composers is long ... As a country it is our duty to protect and nourish our artistic talent, not punish it for achieving success.
John O'donoghue
The people who now vote in the polls – coaches and writers – do not have enough time to watch a lot of football. We wanted to take advantage of all this experience and expertise we have in these great former coaches. Who better to judge teams than the people who have coached the game?
Andy Curtin
She writes family scenes better than anyone else I can think of.
Simon Schama
I have been e-mailed a couple of times by people asking for an exploit. This tells me the Trojan writers are out there looking for something.
Tom Ferris
He's a failed Hollywood writer in his 50s and he's going back to Phoenix to address a problem he has with his father. This is where I think [writer/director] Bob Dolman has been really clever.
Geoffrey Rush
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Marcel Achard
And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.
Paul Auster
I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.
Bret Easton Ellis
I'd spent 10 years learning my craft, and I'm just a professional writer, and how I'm perceived doesn't matter to me in the slightest - because I don't live in L.A., I don't go to parties, I don't go to openings - I just keep my head down and do my job.
John Logan
It has certainly occurred at the expense of the fair-use rights, which underpins our right to speak freely in society. That growing body of scholarship includes a number of prominent law professors and writers on the West Coast.
Rick Boucher
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
Louise Erdrich
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
William E. Gladstone
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Austen is a really beautiful writer when it comes to narrative and dialogue. Her writing is beautiful and elegant. As a novelist, she's one of the best.
Helen Thompson
There is tremendous interest in e-mail and what it will tell you when it comes to an information request because that is today's statement of record. No one writes memos and tucks them away in a desk anymore. Today it starts and ends with e-mail.
Aaref Hilaly
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Bruce Jenner
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes
Hardly anybody can name a Chinese writer.
Steve Tsang
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.
James C. Humes
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman ''other'' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.
Terry Eagleton
I never was one to read a bio. ... I never thought I was important. Now any time anybody quotes me or says anything about me or writes anything about me, I'll do a better job of watching it.
Donnie Marbut
One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won't get their very best. Instead their fear, or the fear imposed by the publisher, will limit them. When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor, or the reviewer, or anyone but my characters and their story.
Judy Blume
If you have not picked up the Freddie Mercury Tribute 'Killer Queen'...please do so...there are many great artists including my version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Most of my days are spent in meetings with writers & producers on the development of the 'Show'. And yes we've closed a development deal with ABC and we're very excited to be joining the ranks of 'Desperate Housewives', 'Lost' & 'Alias'.
Constantine Maroulis
I have always been influenced by country artists along my musical journey. Lately, I have been fortunate enough to be working with some of the great Nashville writers. I look forward to participating as a guest judge in a musical genre that is so close to my heart.
Duff Mckagan
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Maurice Blanchot
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddl.
Ambrose Bierce
We wanted to put the focus on what City Theatre does best -- the unknown, the original and the fresh. We particularly want to develop American playwrights, all of whom are in need of cultivation and homes. ... These are three fantastic writers at different points in their careers.
Tracy Brigden
I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
Christian Bale
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
Alvin Dark
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Ambrose Bierce
Every great writer in history has taken a cigar from that humidor and sat down in the Oak Room for a puff.
Deborah Davis
We try to work with the check writer to help merchants get 100 percent of the money back.
De Anna Bingham
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
Marcel Proust
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
David Simon
It's pretty hard to make me laugh, and sometimes they wouldn't pitch me a joke, they would do the joke. And if it wasn't funny, I wouldn't put it in. But more often than not, when they really thought it was enough to ruin a take, it was a good joke. And Eric is a great writer, so he was always giving other people jokes, too. You want that. There was a great camaraderie on the set.
Troy Miller
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
Anton Chekhov
Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the craft and form of a novel.
John Dalton
The person who signs the checks should always be somebody different than the person who writes the checks.
Richard Kimball
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger Angell
My function as a writer and a speaker really is as a rubbish clearer. I try to sweep away a little bit of the rubbish that's accumulated ... so that people might look a little further down the road and see what new thing God might have waiting for them.
Adrian Plass
I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.
Ama Ata Aidoo
The reason I'm a writer is because I'm a writer. The reason I'm going through all these different genres is I'm trying to lay out a landscape for black male heroes.
Walter Mosley
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
Gerard Butler
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.
Dave Evans
I'm very much against the notion of the Great Man, the Great Figure who is telling us all how to behave. Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.
John Banville
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten
Feinstein probably knows college basketball better than any writer alive. He attended his first Final Four nearly 30 years ago, and knows the people involved intimately. When he proposed writing a book about the most-watched series in sports, we could only say yes.
Michael Pietsch
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.
Neville Cardus
Someone like me, with my height, my look, the sound of my voice, it's been great to play someone who's smart, ... She's one of the smartest people in the room, and the writers are writing for that.
Kristin Chenoweth
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James Matthew Barrie
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
David E. Kelley
The fewer role models you have, the harder it will be for you to imagine you could do it, too. My hope is that Genesis supports not just those emerging writers but that it's making a statement that writing is important, that the imagination being channeled to something on the page is possible.
Ricardo Khan
I like bringing comedy to musicals. That's what's so much fun about this show, because the writers are so based in comedy. I've been able to make it dance and sing ? and keep building things ? in a way they're not used to. For me to be able to get people to laugh in dance is huge because it doesn't always happen.
Casey Nicholaw
Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more about the craft. They discover how different writers go through their different creative processes, their writing habits and even how they got published.
Anna Monardo
In the old days, travel writers were given freebies and then supposed to write something nice.
Irene Clurman
She is always asking about her friends and how they are doing. They send her letters and she writes back to them, but you can tell she misses them terribly.
Laura Campione
When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.
Dorothy Allison
If you have ever had a serious desire to put pen to paper, this group and its parent organization, Romance Writers of America, is the place to belong. Get acquainted with us at the upcoming February conference when authors from all over the state and country will descend on the Space Coast.
Sandy Moffett
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
Nicholas Sparks
That's all I can surmise, as well. But the writer's feelings of guilt cannot be understated.
Murray Klippenstein
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
Elmore Leonard
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a though about publication -- and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
Anne Tyler
[Most writers' view of the New West is] either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.
Walter Kirn
For three decades the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has been a fervent supporter of the American playwright. It is vital that we continue to support those writers who relate the ongoing American saga for the stage. This award brings the appropriate recognition to the important role the playwright serves in American Arts & Letters.
Jim Steinberg
If the writer is ashamed to put his name on the letter, I'm ashamed to read it.
Coy Privette
I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.
Sarah Vowell
Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
Julius Schwartz
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
We're so proud to have her (Haines) here at the Mary C.. She's such a wonderful writer and from right here in Mississippi.
Betty Magee
It's a pretty ambitious movie for what it is … Hemingway is a great writer and a great character. If anybody can play Hemingway, Tony Hopkins can.
Roger Donaldson
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
Alfred Kazin
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.
Simon Newcomb
We certainly know about (London) as a writer, but what we didn't know about him as much was as a photographer. We now know that as a photographer, he was pretty good.
Stephen Becker
It is essential that computers are protected from unauthorized access by remote hackers. All computer users need to patch against these flaws in Microsoft's software as quickly as possible, before hackers and virus writers try and take advantage of them.
Ron O'brien
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Philip Roth
Cynthia is one of the nation's most skillful editorial writers and commentators.
Matthew Storin
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on.
Ambrose Bierce
The chance to give our faithful fans something this special was a chance we had to jump at. Re-exploring the Halo universe with some of our favorite comic book artists and writers - indeed, some of the greatest of all time - was a true labor of love and we couldn't have picked a better partner than Marvel to help us achieve our vision.
Harold Ryan
I don't see the script as just a springboard for my interpretation. You do your best to serve the vision writers have - not by removing yourself from the equation, but by trying to filter what they intended through your artistry.
Joe Mantello
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.
John Clare
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V. S. Naipaul
Matt's a wonderful lyricist. The words that he writes I want to sing. It has never felt like a stretch. It's part of the gift, the two of us making music together.
Leigh Nash
For actors and writers who are being forced to shoehorn products into their work -- whether they fit or not -- there are critical issues of creative rights, consultation and fair compensation. For the public, there is the serious matter of disclosure. Consumers, parents and all viewers have the right to be told when we are being sold.
Patric M. Verrone
I read that, ... But I don't talk about journalism. It's not about me. It's about the writer.
Mark Morris
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
Take all this thing now about working-class actors and writers: it's simply a release of certain talents from that class.
Tom Courtenay
Steve got his first job in comedy as a writer on the 'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' because he was dating one of the dancers. Oh, by the way, Steve, Tommy Tune says hi.
Martin Short
It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads.
Peter Carey
Not only does the Internet provide agency and direct writers the opportunity to attract new customers, but also the opportunity to build loyalty by providing Internet-enabled self-service.
Jeremy Bowler
He was as famous as Canadian writer could get at the time.
Brian Trehearne
You just couldn't write short stories after Hemingway in the 19th-century manner, which is what American writers did until the 1920s.
Michael Reynolds
[The snowball effect also helps attract better people — producers and writers — to make more shows.] Great television comes from great talent, ... It's our job to find the people who will create the hits for us.
Michael Wright
Candace did work here a while [in the '90s, as a contributing editor who wrote features]. I'm sure she draws on lots of her experiences, and I'm sure it's a work of fiction and that it's entertaining. ... She's a wonderful writer.
Anna Wintour
There's always code reuse in development, which is a good thing. No one writes an entire application from scratch. But if you're using someone else's code, you're relying on the security of that code. Developers need to apply the same level of security testing to those shared pieces as they do to their own code.
Michael Sutton
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self-satisfaction.
Alberto Moravia
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