The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. Cyril Connolly
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. John Updike
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer. Anatole Broyard
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding. Anatole Broyard
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters. Philip Roth
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. Thomas W. Higginson
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines. George V. Higgins
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. Gene Fowler
Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. Fannie Hurst
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. James A. Michener
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. Graham Greene
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. James A. Michener
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. Salman Rushdie
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. William G. Golding
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off. Archibald Macleish
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes. Cole Porter
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. Malcolm Cowley
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to. Lawrence Clark Powell
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.
The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none. François R. Chateaubriand
The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none.
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. Susan Sontag
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull. Rod Sterling
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings. Quentin Crisp
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. E. L. Doctorow
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. Oscar Wilde
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. Dr. Thomas Fuller
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. Gore Vidal
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps. Garrison Keillor
Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps.
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
This event was really set up for the writing students at Pitt. The past winners are conducting student workshops that aren't for the public. We wanted to provide wide access to the writers for the students' sake. Cynthia Miller
This event was really set up for the writing students at Pitt. The past winners are conducting student workshops that aren't for the public. We wanted to provide wide access to the writers for the students' sake.
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. Leon Edel
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
As an actor and writer, husband and father, I have two often-conflicting monkeys on my back: Monkey number one is Creative Monkey. He occasionally digs his claws into my brains, and refuses to let go until something wonderful comes out. I love him. Wil Wheaton
As an actor and writer, husband and father, I have two often-conflicting monkeys on my back: Monkey number one is Creative Monkey. He occasionally digs his claws into my brains, and refuses to let go until something wonderful comes out. I love him.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. Real Live Preacher
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. Philip K. Dick
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. They're competing with us. And television is a huge target for young people. So we don't quite have the monopoly on young writers, directors, producers and actors that we formerly did. Roger Corman
The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. They're competing with us. And television is a huge target for young people. So we don't quite have the monopoly on young writers, directors, producers and actors that we formerly did.
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. Marguerite Yourcenar
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. N. W. Dougherty
The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. Ian Hunter
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher. Howard Rubenstein
He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher.
I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band. Joey Ramone
I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band.
You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking. Andrew Carroll
You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.
Games allow writers to express creativity in a process that won't get as bogged down as the Hollywood studio system. Writers are artists, and they like to see their work out there. Randall Jahnson
Games allow writers to express creativity in a process that won't get as bogged down as the Hollywood studio system. Writers are artists, and they like to see their work out there.
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. Russell Baker
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important male characters. Like many writers, she drew on personal experiences. But she was also a gifted observer of the human condition. James Bundy
She was a marvelous playwright who wrote vital, important female characters and vital, important male characters. Like many writers, she drew on personal experiences. But she was also a gifted observer of the human condition.
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! Luigi Pirandello
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. Herbert Gold
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material. Naomi Klein
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Daphne du Maurier
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. Van Wyck Brooks
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. Toni Cade Bambara
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list. Olivia Goldsmith
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher -admittedly a daunting task - it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.
Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live. Sherman Alexie
Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.
She fits in with young-adult writers that a lot of people refer to as edgy. They deal with significant issues of concern with kids, including sex and substance abuse. Adults sometimes are shocked they're so blunt. Peggy Dillner
She fits in with young-adult writers that a lot of people refer to as edgy. They deal with significant issues of concern with kids, including sex and substance abuse. Adults sometimes are shocked they're so blunt.
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society. Marguerite Blessington
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Here's an example: A series of car break-ins is occurring at trailhead parking lots in your area. A reporter writes a short article about the problem, identifying some of the locations of the vandalism. As a sidebar to the conventionally written story, trail users are invited to post their experiences of having their cars broken into, including submitting photos. Steve Outing
Here's an example: A series of car break-ins is occurring at trailhead parking lots in your area. A reporter writes a short article about the problem, identifying some of the locations of the vandalism. As a sidebar to the conventionally written story, trail users are invited to post their experiences of having their cars broken into, including submitting photos.
Usually, I write my stuff and then he takes it and writes his part, his stuff. Sometimes, the two of us will sit together and write, too ... I have taken to taking my cellphone with me to sound-check in case I come up with some idea. Dan Estrin
Usually, I write my stuff and then he takes it and writes his part, his stuff. Sometimes, the two of us will sit together and write, too ... I have taken to taking my cellphone with me to sound-check in case I come up with some idea.
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. Julian Green
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. James A. Michener
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later. Bernard Malamud
I for one believe that not enough has been made of the tragedy of the destruction of 6 million Jews. Somebody has to cry-even if it's a writer, 20 years later.
I've always believed in going after writers. I've been criticized for it to. I've turned down big stars for things and I've lost friends over it. Robert Evans
I've always believed in going after writers. I've been criticized for it to. I've turned down big stars for things and I've lost friends over it.
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. Leo Rosten
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl. Thelma Ritter
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.
It's not a personal thing against any writer. Amanda Abel
It's not a personal thing against any writer.
I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world - and I've looked - with more independent bookstores in such a small area. Dave Eggers
I don't think there's a neighborhood where more writers live. There is no neighborhood in the world - and I've looked - with more independent bookstores in such a small area.
For the past 18 years, Card Player has remained the go-to source for everything poker, ... As a longtime Card Player fan and writer, I am very excited to assume a larger role with the perennial leader in the poker industry. Phil Hellmuth
For the past 18 years, Card Player has remained the go-to source for everything poker, ... As a longtime Card Player fan and writer, I am very excited to assume a larger role with the perennial leader in the poker industry.
August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans. Kenny Leon
August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.
The race is definitely going to be won by the exploit writers, because they're going to be able to publish an exploit in the next couple of days, ... It's such a glaring bug, I don't know how anybody else didn't discover it. Marc Maiffret
The race is definitely going to be won by the exploit writers, because they're going to be able to publish an exploit in the next couple of days, ... It's such a glaring bug, I don't know how anybody else didn't discover it.
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write. Gloria Estefan
I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
[The trial changed all that, the writer says.] He's just a businessman [now], ... He's very much like a lot of the industrialists of the early part of the century. John Heilemann
[The trial changed all that, the writer says.] He's just a businessman [now], ... He's very much like a lot of the industrialists of the early part of the century.
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that. Anthony Minghella
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Peter De Vries
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
We believe the letter was sent by someone who knows where the painting is, if the letter writer didn't have it him or herself. Jim Margolin
We believe the letter was sent by someone who knows where the painting is, if the letter writer didn't have it him or herself.
Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting – and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why. Tim Rice oxley
Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting – and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.
Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition. Ruth Warrick
Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. Alberto Moravia
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
The courage of exploring myself was nothing compared to the courage of actually doing the EMT course, ... As a writer, the concept of self-revelation is not new. The problem was getting through the depression and anxiety and doing something unheard of for me: becoming an EMT. Writing about self-revelation is gravy. Michael Stern
The courage of exploring myself was nothing compared to the courage of actually doing the EMT course, ... As a writer, the concept of self-revelation is not new. The problem was getting through the depression and anxiety and doing something unheard of for me: becoming an EMT. Writing about self-revelation is gravy.
It will provide an incredibly rich picture of our past through the individual voices of 30 British writers. Jane Tranter
It will provide an incredibly rich picture of our past through the individual voices of 30 British writers.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Aaron Sorkin
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. John Arbuthnot
[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people. William Morris
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.
You can potentially control what the physician writes. Richard L. Evans
You can potentially control what the physician writes.
He's one of those inspired writers ... but he has a warmth that is appealing to teachers. Lynn Stewart
He's one of those inspired writers ... but he has a warmth that is appealing to teachers.
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated. Don DeLillo
Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too. Benicio Del Toro
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. Tanith Lee
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
[Still, for the writers in this book, hope springs eternal. In her journal-style essay, Gray documents many moments of despair during the 14 years it took to get her movie on the screen.] How low can you go? ... There I was at dinner, asking my brother to find some way to create a job for me in his casket business. Pamela Gray
[Still, for the writers in this book, hope springs eternal. In her journal-style essay, Gray documents many moments of despair during the 14 years it took to get her movie on the screen.] How low can you go? ... There I was at dinner, asking my brother to find some way to create a job for me in his casket business.
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it. Buddy Rice
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. Sam Shepard
I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. Buchi Emecheta
I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. Art Garfunkel
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough. William Maxwell
Perhaps a body of work isn't necessary for a short story writer. If you do one story that survives in an anthology, that's enough.
Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I'd murdered my family, that'd be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah's defense (of Frey) just doesn't work. You can't say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It's cheating. Daniel Wallace
Publishing is tough. As a writer, if I'd murdered my family, that'd be a great gift, not to my family maybe, but definitely to my book. Oprah's defense (of Frey) just doesn't work. You can't say a memoir is 90% true. Which 90%? It's cheating.
Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer. Ezra Pound
Language is made out of concrete things. General expressions in non- concrete terms are a laziness, they are talk, not art, not creation. They are the reaction of things on the writer, not a creative act by the writer.
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too. Knut Hamsun
The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.
The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now. Francis Ford Coppola
The book is inherently difficult to adapt to the screen, and we've never quite found the right combination of director and writer to do it justice until now.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. Pliny the Elder
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.
Whoever writes the best grant may win. There's no systematic solution to this. Colleen Wilcox
Whoever writes the best grant may win. There's no systematic solution to this.
The citizen journalist here is a snapper who happens to be passing somewhere where something is going on. What we haven't developed yet is the citizen journalist who goes out and writes and reports. Roy Greenslade
The citizen journalist here is a snapper who happens to be passing somewhere where something is going on. What we haven't developed yet is the citizen journalist who goes out and writes and reports.
We've had people come in and pick ( League ) up and realize what a good writer he is. Now they're hooked on his stuff and are looking for other great writers. Now they're comics fans. Mike Banks
We've had people come in and pick ( League ) up and realize what a good writer he is. Now they're hooked on his stuff and are looking for other great writers. Now they're comics fans.
I went over his notes to 'All the King's Men,' and he sounds like a college professor, talking about unity, characterization, forward movement of the action, all of which you would not expect of someone of Cohn's limited education. He respected writers. Bernard F. Dick
I went over his notes to 'All the King's Men,' and he sounds like a college professor, talking about unity, characterization, forward movement of the action, all of which you would not expect of someone of Cohn's limited education. He respected writers.
It's not a support group for writers. Lee Keylock
It's not a support group for writers.
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. Jessamyn West
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. Marianne Moore
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
I'm sorry I'm not able to be here. It is this attention of yours that has helped me to flourish for the past couple of decades, as an unapologetic writer of short fiction. Alice Munro
I'm sorry I'm not able to be here. It is this attention of yours that has helped me to flourish for the past couple of decades, as an unapologetic writer of short fiction.
He's a writer that I like very much. He's a very funny writer with a great, offbeat sense of character. He's attracted to odd people, and this story is like that, in part about a 63-year-old woman, which is interesting to me. It's a character study, really. I don't want to talk too much about it, because we don't want to spoil the story. Kathleen Chalfant
He's a writer that I like very much. He's a very funny writer with a great, offbeat sense of character. He's attracted to odd people, and this story is like that, in part about a 63-year-old woman, which is interesting to me. It's a character study, really. I don't want to talk too much about it, because we don't want to spoil the story.
In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate. Guy Clark
In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate.
That was never designed to be a staple of the show that we would revisit week after week after week. That was something that these two sort of brought to life, and that's a perfect example of something that they did that then informed the writers that this is a part of the show. David E. Kelley
That was never designed to be a staple of the show that we would revisit week after week after week. That was something that these two sort of brought to life, and that's a perfect example of something that they did that then informed the writers that this is a part of the show.
They were, in the best sense of the word, enmeshed in each other's lives. As writers and people, they were one of those rare couples in which both people really appreciated in the other the things they appreciated in themselves. Tim Rutten
They were, in the best sense of the word, enmeshed in each other's lives. As writers and people, they were one of those rare couples in which both people really appreciated in the other the things they appreciated in themselves.
Somebody who writes a sports column looks at the game a little bit differently I suspect than somebody who's used to playing the game. Mike Golic
Somebody who writes a sports column looks at the game a little bit differently I suspect than somebody who's used to playing the game.
When I put up Springsteen songs against our pictures, I couldn't make any of them work, ... Springsteen writes almost exclusively about the young male experience in working-class America. But you put anything by Dylan against this film and it works. Niki Caro
When I put up Springsteen songs against our pictures, I couldn't make any of them work, ... Springsteen writes almost exclusively about the young male experience in working-class America. But you put anything by Dylan against this film and it works.
He's one of the last real western writers. A lot of these films he wrote were mostly westerns. Tom Copeland
He's one of the last real western writers. A lot of these films he wrote were mostly westerns.
This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project. Klaus Heymann
This was definitely not a vanity project. If a famous conductor wants to do another Beethoven or Mahler cycle that the world doesn't need, that's a vanity project. But a young composer who writes good music, that's not a vanity project.
The virus writers [are] ... back from vacation and they've started pushing out their creations. Vincent Gullotto
The virus writers [are] ... back from vacation and they've started pushing out their creations.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. Anatole Broyard
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
These guys are going to be getting a super boost from Marvel, ... Each [writer] will be getting a regular series or a major mini-series that will hopefully push them to that next level. Joe Quesada
These guys are going to be getting a super boost from Marvel, ... Each [writer] will be getting a regular series or a major mini-series that will hopefully push them to that next level.
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. Mika Waltari
During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
Being a writer is an extremely vulnerable identity. Pamela Gray
Being a writer is an extremely vulnerable identity.
Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have had this idea of their story in their head, which is a story that they read over and over again, then an actor will do completely different things that they didn't know were there. Bill Buford
Writers witnessing actors read their stories will often come away very confused because they'll have had this idea of their story in their head, which is a story that they read over and over again, then an actor will do completely different things that they didn't know were there.
Fortunately, the writers are clever enough to never really answer that question and, hopefully, they never will, although we get hints about it. ... Probably if you asked him what he believes in, he'd give you a different answer every day. Kyle Maclachlan
Fortunately, the writers are clever enough to never really answer that question and, hopefully, they never will, although we get hints about it. ... Probably if you asked him what he believes in, he'd give you a different answer every day.
She's not a writer, thankfully. Markus Zusak
She's not a writer, thankfully.
[After the brothers split up as a writing team in 1954, Danny Simon became head writer on] The Colgate Comedy Hour ... Make Room for Daddy. Danny Simon
[After the brothers split up as a writing team in 1954, Danny Simon became head writer on] The Colgate Comedy Hour ... Make Room for Daddy.
'Frasier' is a show for the ages. It at least matched its predecessor, 'Cheers,' in quality. It had great writers, the perfect cast. ... It was like a great stage play each week. Ray Richmond
'Frasier' is a show for the ages. It at least matched its predecessor, 'Cheers,' in quality. It had great writers, the perfect cast. ... It was like a great stage play each week.
It puts the workshop students in contact with other writers and also helps them to interact with the community, ... Audience members ask intelligent questions on the experiences of the writers, such as ways to conduct book tours. James Mcpherson
It puts the workshop students in contact with other writers and also helps them to interact with the community, ... Audience members ask intelligent questions on the experiences of the writers, such as ways to conduct book tours.
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. Irwin Shaw
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. Boris Pasternak
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer. Tom Kenny
People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. Gabrielle Roy
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. Victor Hugo
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it. Alice Childress
The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
Code Red means there's a framework for a worm out there right now that has proven its effectiveness to spread. All [virus writers] need is a new vulnerability. Jim Toole
Code Red means there's a framework for a worm out there right now that has proven its effectiveness to spread. All [virus writers] need is a new vulnerability.
The writer's duty is to keep on writing. William Styron
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
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
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.
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
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.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. Karl Kraus
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
[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
[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].
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. Carl Van Doren
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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
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.
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. V. S. Naipaul
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this? Vint Cerf
Why would they be soliciting the opinion of a pun writer about this?
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can't teach someone who writes columns to care.
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
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.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. Joseph Fiennes
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
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
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.
Six months ago, I was just a writer for Esquire, typing up in my little garret on the far north side of Chicago, and no one had any idea who I was. Ted Allen
Six months ago, I was just a writer for Esquire, typing up in my little garret on the far north side of Chicago, and no one had any idea who I was.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
[If you are a lover of the carefully crafted sentence, if] more isn't enough ... the worst writer of his generation. Patrick Moody
[If you are a lover of the carefully crafted sentence, if] more isn't enough ... the worst writer of his generation.
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. Ben Hecht
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer. Naomi Shihab Nye
You have a very good sense of endings. These are excellent. You're a very good writer.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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
You want to know the color of my underwear, too? ... You guys are starting to ask questions like the Japanese writers used to.
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
Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise.
My wife calls this 'national Jim Flynn week,' so she just writes me off. Jim Flynn
My wife calls this 'national Jim Flynn week,' so she just writes me off.
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
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.
Every artist writes his own autobiography. Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. William Rose Benet
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
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
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.
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
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.
Girl, make sure you get a job 'cause some writers can't even afford to eat. Alice Faye
Girl, make sure you get a job 'cause some writers can't even afford to eat.
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
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.
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
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.
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
Wendy was a good friend. She was as well a writer of enormous talent and generous spirit. Her works brought joy to many.
What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? Kurt Vonnegut
What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
(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
(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.
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
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.
The writer dreams of being the sculptor of words and the painter of ideas. Paul Carvel
The writer dreams of being the sculptor of words and the painter of ideas.
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
I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work.
Our great American writers were all newspaper people. John Gould
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
It's a challenge to have different writers' songs sound like they belong in the same place. Jesse Emerson
It's a challenge to have different writers' songs sound like they belong in the same place.
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
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.
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