The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
Cyril Connolly
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
John Updike
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Susan Sontag
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
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
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Joseph Brodsky
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
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
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb
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
Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Gene Fowler
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
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
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.
Julian Barnes
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
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
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates
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
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore
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
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
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Sibert Cather
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
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 original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none.
François R. Chateaubriand
M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.
Philip Howard
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Sterling
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
Maria Lenhart
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
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
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard Shaw
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde
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
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley
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
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
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
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
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
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
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
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
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine Liner
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
There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.
Augusto Roa Bastos
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
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'd write one character's story for all eight episodes, then the next character, while one of the other writers may be working on pieces of another character's story.
Tom Fontana
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
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
Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.
Roger Corman
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
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
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?
David Mamet
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter
He's always loved being a newspaper editor and writer and publisher.
Howard Rubenstein
I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the university, and writes books.
Arthur Hertzberg
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
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
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
Inigo DeLeon
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
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
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Alexander Pope
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
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
He writes, to me, more like the late Roger Miller than anyone before him.
Hazel Smith
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
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
Almost 50 percent of the work actors used to do for television is gone. Broadcast stations are all about money -- with reality shows they don't have to pay actors, or writers, and no sets are needed.
Cari Shayne
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
Van Wyck Brooks
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
Toni Cade Bambara
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
I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to register my own times in terms of my own time, and still more to urge those who are better poets and better prose-writers than myself to have the same aim.
Ford Madox Ford
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
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
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.
Liev Schreiber
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
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
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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
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
I didn't expect to be up here. I'm quite humbled by this and the main reason I'm humbled is that there were four others who could easily be up here; that humbles me. We have so many good writers in this country.
David Bergen
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
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
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
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'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
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
John Scott
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten
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
It's not one person [who writes the songs]... everyone definitely contributes fairly equally.
Steve Richards
It's not a personal thing against any writer.
Amanda Abel
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
The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about poverty, it's not about a woman struggling to become a writer in a world dominated by men.
Mark Adamo
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
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
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow
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
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 was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk.
Harry Belafonte
[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
[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
We were just happy to get reviewed by the New York Times (on March 26). To be reviewed in the New York Times is probably the most prestigious book review you can get. Heavy book buyers read it. Now we learn that it will be an editor's choice in the New York Times. There are only about eight of those a week. Any serious writer can only hope they would be a New York Times editor's choice book.
Dan Wetzel
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
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
Steve Martin writes this play about something very serious. But, as Steve Martin, he puts his own little twist on words. The wit is quick and very funny in addition to presenting an interesting message.
Richie Call
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter De Vries
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
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
Maurice Blanchot
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
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
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.
Wilfrid Sheed
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Alberto Moravia
I'm not a bad boy - I'm a writer.
Nelson George
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
It will provide an incredibly rich picture of our past through the individual voices of 30 British writers.
Jane Tranter
I just wanted to write books I wanted to write, ... There's no writer who has not had enough ego to hope something he or she wrote would be seized on by the public -- that something they write will last beyond them. But hoping and expecting are two different things. Expecting would be beyond ego.
Robert Jordan
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot
I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.
Nick Hornby
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
You can potentially control what the physician writes.
Richard L. Evans
My take on Max is that he's an outsider. Without him, certain parts of the mystery wouldn't get revealed. He's like Columbo. He's a mystery writer and he finds himself in a natural mystery that he has to figure out.
Brian Shea
He's one of those inspired writers ... but he has a warmth that is appealing to teachers.
Lynn Stewart
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
She writes her own music, sings beautifully, she's athletic and has everything going for her.
Brian Chalk
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
Benicio Del Toro
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee
Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.
James Bundy
[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
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
Buddy Rice
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Ring Lardner
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 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
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
Wilfrid Sheed
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
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
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy
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
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
Our medal predictions rested with our beat writers. Best in the World.
The Associated Press
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 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
Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
Harold Ross
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
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
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
Whoever writes the best grant may win. There's no systematic solution to this.
Colleen Wilcox
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
His debut overshadows Urban (Meyer). He's that bright a star. All the (Florida) writers know he's good copy.
Pat Dooley
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
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
Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.
Joanne Dobson
It's not a support group for writers.
Lee Keylock
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
These plans are not truly employer sponsored. Once the employee writes the check, the employer really has no more role. From that point on it looks to the employee like an IRA.
Todd Mccracken
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.
Marianne Moore
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
David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.
Steve Schirripa
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
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
Connie Willis
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
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
And you know who lets them get away with lying? ... Baseball writers. Hardly any Hall of Fame voters have the (guts) to stand up and say, 'These guys cheated. I'm not voting them into the Hall of Fame.' .
Patrick Reilly
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
There had been decisions from higher-ups in the past to put more of a pop sound to our music. For this album, we very much wanted to say let's not focus on making better pop songs. Let's focus on what we dig because that pop stuff is going to be there. (Vocalist) John (Popper) writes those kinds of songs.
Ben Wilson
He's one of the last real western writers. A lot of these films he wrote were mostly westerns.
Tom Copeland
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
That song was on the Dirt Band's Acoustic record, ... and in the time that passed between when we wrote it and when the Flatts cut it, what an amazing life that song had… People would come up to all of us writers long before it was this monster hit -- I even had someone in the grocery store -- asking for copies of the lyric because they wanted to get married to it. And that's a wonderful feeling….
Jeff Hanna
The virus writers [are] ... back from vacation and they've started pushing out their creations.
Vincent Gullotto
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
He's the reason I wrote my book. I thought if Randy Hatch can do it, I can, too. Neither of us are writers, but we knew we had a story to tell.
Lisa Norris
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
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
If those two men (Kong and Driscoll) were welded into one, that would definitely make the perfect man. Adrien Brody plays the writer. He has all the words. Kong has all the soul, and all the power as well.
Naomi Watts
Being a writer is an extremely vulnerable identity.
Pamela Gray
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
What I have always believed in 40 years of experience in the book publishing industry is that you can do what you want as a writer as long as you tell the reader what you are doing. Art is about honesty. My objection is not the use of memoir as literature it certainly can be. My objection is to the lack of honesty.
Peter Osnos
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
She's not a writer, thankfully.
Markus Zusak
[Russell] Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse-with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.
Thomas D'evelyn
[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
'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
For about two weeks I wanted be a director, then I got wise to that, ... I changed my emphasis from directing to writing, because when you're a director you need actors, equipment. Being a writer you need a pen and paper; there's no overhead.
Ross Lamanna
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
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
She's not just the ombudsman who takes complaints. And she's not just the policy adviser or the writer of the rules and regulations.
Jim Dempsey
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
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