Personally speaking, I think that being a folk song writer, which I am, comes with a responsibility to reflect on the social times you are living in, ... That's just what I did in my latest release, Hearts in Mind.

Nanci Griffith

These writers are tapping into a frustration that is almost universal among young people in Japan. Japan's economic bubble has burst and for many young people, a period of great promise seems to be over. They're left with no sense of direction, no sense of what really matters in life.

Rebecca Copeland

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

Walter Hill

It's a perfect fit. The way Shane thinks and writes is the way I talk.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

The difference from project to project is that departure point. In this case, it was really an abstract idea, an issue of citizenship, but it might be a Chekhov short story or a story from 'The Iliad.' You can really fit anything in there, but what's consistent is that the writer and the director are chosen, the actors are all present before the play begins.

Gary Graves

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Marya Mannes

I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.

Bell Hooks

Anybody who writes us off now is a fool.

Leon Moore

I'm also looking forward to Pat Conroy and Tim O'Brien. They have been some of my favorite writers.

William Miller

We work with as many companies as possible, so we know how their file format writes data to the drive.

John Christopher

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Aharon Appelfeld

This is exactly what we wanted. It is very rewarding. Who knows -- we may get a writer or an illustrator out of this.

Celestine Sofika

He's always really thorough with them and really interested in talking about writing and helping students become more efficient and more learned writers, so I really see a dedication to students.

James Cianciola

Being a dedicated writer and poet takes time, commitment and energy. You don't have time to drink or do drugs because you're pouring your time and energy into your poetry.

Lauren Manojlovich

This hurricane re-writes our folklore. It shows you can't predict anything and can't build to protect.

Bob Anderson

These exposed streets were the same everywhere, and the writer saw no truth in them. They were simply more visible in a small town.

Dale Maharidge

Anybody who writes science fiction is doing a morality play. When dealing with androids [Aliens] , they often involve fulfilling the machines as if they were gods. But what we really find out is that they're really talking about love for each other. Even though its all hidden and becomes - well - mechanical!

Lance Henriksen

Not only do they have to attain the high creative level of individual writers, they have to do it week after week, often under enormous time pressures.

Daniel Petrie

Ronnie was pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend.

Ronnie Corbett

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Carol Shields

I kinda slowly fell into it and now I'm up to my eyeballs in it. As a kid I wanted to make movies but it was always just being a writer was my dream, ... You can only pour ketchup on your friends' heads for so long before it just gets tiring.

Steve Niles

Writers are alone. If you're a producer, you know all the other producers out there. If you're a writer, you don't know any of your peers.

Barbara Morgan

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

I think I'll probably write something, a family drama. I'm good at frame works and plots, but my dialogue is atrocious. It gets very over-wrought. My husband's a writer and his dialogue is brilliant, so, I'm very often his script-editor, so I think we'll probably write something together.

Thandie Newton

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Joan Didion

I don't think our Beat Generation would even be known as that, had it not been for Ginsberg. You might say he put that whole concept together. Without it, we might have been known, but only as individuals. Separate, great writers, scattered across the landscape.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think Wayne most enjoyed his time covering hockey. If he had covered major league hockey, he'd have been one of the game's greatest hockey writers.

Jerry Magee

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Brian W. Aldiss

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean De La Bruyere

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?

Carson Mccullers

I can understand that kind of reaction, ... But I think people underestimated or were under uninformed about John Wells' background. Not only has he produced some great blockbuster shows, but he is a great writer.

Joshua Malina

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Herbert Gold

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

James A. Michener

It's real estate to (virus writers), and it's really valuable real estate.

Alfred Huger

Drawings have always been the P.S. part of van Gogh's work, ... Yet he was a letter writer, a guy with a pen in his hand.

Colta Ives

Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been here. My job is to listen to their ideas or watch them perform, and maybe help them reshape and refine their acts so that I can start calling producers and directors to help them get jobs.

Dorothy Palmer

'It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.'

V. S. Naipaul

In Latin America, the one who takes control of the government writes the laws.

Satomi Kataoka

It's great to see that many people interested. In school, a bunch of the writers (mentioned here) -- you don't hear as much about.

Kathleen Miller

As a stunningly talented producer and writer he brought pleasure to millions of people, and it's a tribute to his sheer creative energy that he remained active up to the very end.

Roly Keating

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

Stanislaw J. Lec

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world (to be published). You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Walter Mosley

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

This city has bred some great writers and we want others to be inspired by this competition to share their experiences of this wonderful city.

Lord Mayor

My impression of him, and the impressions of everyone in the office, was he is a very fine lawyer, a very hard worker, a beautiful writer and absolutely, meticulously objective.

Charles Fried

It never happened. It's an invention of some irresponsible writer.

Jeffrey Loria

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Sinclair Lewis

Well, yeah, I mean I always wanted to be a writer eventually, but I wasn't ever really thinking like in terms of this young. I mean I always fantasized about when I'm 30, I'll go become a British citizen and win the Man Booker award. That's still my big goal.

Kaavya Viswanathan

[Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about] Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.

Tony Hendra

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

Ted Hughes

It is "lifestyle" journalism the way Chaucer first invented it, and the Times, onto a good thing, is uninhibitedly publishing articles on the passing of a cuckolded poet, a rock promoter strangely addicted to collecting orangutans and an Italian writer striving "to avoid becoming a bore."

Francis X. Clines

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

Jean Paul Sartre

It's an impressive list based on the subject matter, and it includes a lot of writers who've never been nominated before. I think this list is going to be reflective of what the Oscar list will ultimately be because we covered all of the movies this year.

Patric M. Verrone

If you are an Aaron Sorkin fan, and I am, I understand always lamenting his departure. But I also think it is a tribute to Aaron that he created a situation and these great characters that are so solid that with good writers taking them over they still are viable and compelling.

Joshua Malina

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

Lucy Parsons

It's going to be an opportunity for artists and organizations. It could be someone representing the Olympia Film Society or Harlequin or another arts group -- writers and poets, filmmaking. Anybody is welcome to come. We are deliberately casting our net very wide. It's going to really be an idea summit.

Lois Maffeo

He was a giant figure in American theater. Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story.

Tony Kushner

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

James Houston

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

Dorothea Brande

The writer's pen is to ideas what the net is to butterflies.

Paul Carvel

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman

We have Longfellow and Whittier. I don't understand why we don't' name one after one of our own writers.

Mary Hilaire Tavenner

I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The problem with writers is we have too many stories.

Barbara Hodges

Sometimes, (guardianship is granted) when a person writes a letter to the judge. (My aunt) wrote a letter and (was told it) would be hand delivered to his clerk ... I am waiting to see if this letter to the judge will do anything.

Brandi Knight

Jim (Hindman) has given me carte blanche. This is the first time I'm really working on something with the writer.

Paul Gurgol

I write non-fiction, and he didn't influence me. He was one of the great writers, but I don't know that he influenced a generation.

Gay Talese

I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' because it really is above and beyond what we expected. Writers like (Kurt) Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien waited years after their service to write their books. There's an immediacy and rawness to this book that makes it so compelling.

Andrew Carroll

Frank [Sebastiano] is a real writer, ... He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show'. The only award I have is an FM-mmy.

Artie Lange

However, our experience shows that once proof-of-concept code is released, virus writers are usually quick to take the code and adapt it for their own use.

Kaspersky Lab

Does the government have the right to regulate every single letter that a doctor writes about a patient?

Mark Anderson

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

Stefan Zweig

There are real problems with those pieces. I mean everything that Brahms writes seems to be 'bigger' than the medium he's writing for. The string quartets may be the most problematic of all his chamber music.

Lawrence Dutton

Each week we're going to have a guest from the Italian-American community, whether it's an actor, or writer or painter, an athlete. And we're going to do a thing called 'What's Your Beef?' People call in and complain to us about potholes and government and whatever they want to complain about.

Vincent Pastore

This is a situation, in my opinion, where Terry is accustomed to saying African-American. His script writers wrote in 'people of color.' He's trying to go from memory and got confused and said .

Maynard Jackson

A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.

Jason Zebehazy

You need to have a gang, a godmother, a godfather, somebody who can make you get a buss. A writer is held hostage by the publishers who are here.

Colin Channer

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell.

Polly Adler

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.

Raymond Chandler

Previously Apple's operating system, Mac OS X, was untargeted by virus writers, but two worms aimed at the OS changed all that. Apple had been bragging about its security record pretty loudly and now has to eat its words.

Andy Walker

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

Tanith Lee

I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth about himself and other people. That, a little technique with words and the willingness to bare heart, soul and body are really all it takes.

Clive Barnes

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Nanci Griffith

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nick Cave

Gordie is a pleasure to be around as a writer. He isn't the type to write safe (lyrics) or work with melodies that fit with what everybody else is writing -- he thinks outside the box.

George Canyon

Everybody at Metro was in my gag department, including Irving Thalberg. They'd laugh their heads off at dialogue written by all your new writers. They were joke-happy. They didn't look for action; they were looking for funny things to say.

Buster Keaton

For two hours, Hoffman just sits there, using his type writer. Sure there are a bunch of different camera angles, but it's just Hoffman sitting there not saying a word.

Scott Wright

The writers needed to have the freedom and breathing room to explore sexual topics. That's what the show dealt with.

Adam Levin

We write what we know about. It's easy to write songs about things you're familiar with. We're all collective writers.

Randy Huth

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Harry Harrison

She does quite a lot with religion which is unusual for a crime writer ... the question about sin and the way it exists in the world, how you deal with it and how it exists in life.

Charles Elliott

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel Proust

If the writers want to put cheaters in the Hall of Fame, that's their prerogative.

Phil Niekro

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Carson Mccullers

Our awards are purely voted on by writers, so you're getting what the writers think are the best-written films of the year. Ironically, we parallel closely with the Oscars.

Cheryl Rhoden

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

Donal Henahan

For anyone who covers baseball as a writer or broadcaster, ... the No. 1 requirement is that you've got to love the game. Lord knows between the travel, the weather, your team playing badly, there's all kinds of things that you can find to make yourself upset if you want. But you have to realize those things are all just a few clouds in a wonderful sky. Tom never lost sight of that sky.

John Lowe

One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too many things, ... and if they can't typecast you as a writer on this or that, then I'm afraid you tend not to be understood at all.

Colin Wilson

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Horace Walpole

If you're a writer in Dublin and you write a snatch of dialogue, everyone thinks you lifted it from Joyce. The whole idea that he owns language as it is spoken in Dublin is a nonsense. He didn't invent the Dublin accent. It's as if you're encroaching on his area or it's a given that he's on your shoulder. It gets on my nerves.

Roddy Doyle

What?s great is how he keeps it updated. It seems like he?s always going out, and he?s very, very knowledgeable. He?s been to every place he writes about, and he gives a very accurate description.

Ray Crist

I've never written with the intention of writing hits. I guess I'm a commercial writer, though. My songs do tend to come out two verses, bridge, guitar solo, last verse, and tag. When I've finished a piece I do have my opinion about whether it will sell, of course, but I'm not always right.

Christine Mcvie

I think he's a great millennial figure because he represents one of the darkest extremes of Western culture, ... I think he wrote in uncharted waters. His writing is pitch black, and I don't think any writer before or since had touched bottom in the human psyche. I think Sade goes there and goes there relentlessly.

Doug Wright

It makes my actors feel like they're creating and not just parroting the writer's words, ... So if you can get an actor to feel like he's part of the creative process, you'll get them to perform a lot better for you.

James Burrows

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own.

Michael Crichton

Without i.Shop this level of integration would not have been practical. Both R.O. Writer and Delphi have embraced these standards that allow sharing of customer, shop and vehicle information between front and back shop applications. When we first implemented the i.Shop standards, this is the level of integration and efficiency we had envisioned being possible.

Ben Johnson

I've never heard of him, and I've never heard of the writer.

Robert Garrity

Though evidence shows that the terrorists are interested in acquiring nuclear weapons to use against our cities, a learned writer for the New York Review of Books insists that the real weapons of mass destruction are world poverty and environmental abuse. Of course, world poverty is rarely mentioned by terrorists, and those known to be involved have almost all been well fed and are well to do.

John Leo

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Leo Rosten

I grew up around writers. And it's all about attention to detail.

Lucinda Williams

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.

Rhys Alexander

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Paul Bailey

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

Bell Hooks

Writers and spoke-word artists will write something in response to a work in the exhibition and share what they wrote. It's open to writers, poets and storytellers.

Terri Thomas

The movie 'Above and Beyond' starring Robert Taylor didn't get anything right, ... 'Above and Beyond' script writers put the words, 'Oh my God, what have we done?' into my mouth,' Tibbets said. 'I never said that. Bob Lewis (the copilot) wrote 'my God' in his journal he was keeping on the flight. That's how I remember it, anyway.'

Paul Tibbets

He was the kind of writer who took a person's life and made it interesting. If you wanted to get the humanity of a story, you assigned it to Tim.

Jim Ross

I see this as a way for local writers to celebrate and sell some of the books which we have produced. And with all these creative energies, it should be exciting.

Stuart Rawlings

She's a very smart producer and writer. We're anxious to work with her any way we can.

Marcia Shulman

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

Tom Bissell

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

William Strunk Jr.

I realized that I wanted to be a writer and I had characters and topics all around me to write about.

Chris Crutcher

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Paddy Chayefsky

'Catch-22' undermines the whole heroic logic of World War II, ... It was really refreshing and interesting for me, as a young man learning about modern history and literature, to see how powerful a single writer could be in undermining the whole social mind-set.

Mark Bowden

She wanted to be a writer and live on past her death.

Derrick Null

I'm sure the budget writers in the House are not inclined to give extra benefits to a freshman of the opposite party. However, I really don't consider CSO money extra benefits.

Sen. Steve Newman

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."

Saul Bellow

A few years ago, a fellow professor stopped at my door and said, "You're here in your office more than my full-time colleagues," and I replied, "Writers don't retire, they just go out of print." With electronic publication, even that doesn't have to happen.

James Gunn

Though not all the facts about her role on CSI have been fully decided yet for the future, Ann Donahue the Exec. Producer and writers of CSI have her character staying in Brazil for now until further decisions are made for the end of Season.

Sofia Milos

Huggins and Gillen, that (handshake) incident heightened it for a short period of time. It gave the writers something to talk about. But the intensity of the game is no less without Bob Huggins or Pete Gillen or whomever. Whoever the coach is going to be, the intensity level is always going to be sky high. The whole city is still going to shut down and watch that game.

Byron Larkin

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.

Christopher Lehmann haupt

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Cliff Fadiman

Why are the numbers so high today? IM is really growing in terms of use. Because of the popularity, it's a more attractive target to hackers and virus writers. The specific number of threats is not huge, but it's much more than the year before. So the percentage ends up being quite large.

Art Gilliland

True writers have a lot more invested in the way they've written their books than in what those books happen to be about.

Po Bronson

Virus writers are always looking for new tricks to entice innocent computer users into running their malicious code. This latest ploy feeds on people's desire for the latest news.

Carole Theriault

This was the first time I've seen writers at 'World News Tonight' banging away on electric typewriters.

Jeffrey Schneider

We're not apologizing for printing the cartoon. I do personally to any caller, letter-writer, anybody that comes in. We're not attempting to offend a certain ethnicity, race, or religion. It just so happens in this case that one was offended, and we did know that going in.

Bryan Tucker

He became the first member of a major pop group to win creative control of the records, ... He was the writer, the chief composer, the arranger and producer of The Beach Boys records in 1963. That was unprecedented.

David Leaf

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone de Beauvoir

Too many people only thought of Capote as this odd, little man who showed up on talk shows during the '70s. This movie helps people remember that he was a very serious artist and writer, not just some self-absorbed celebrity.

Ron Cooper

If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.

Philip Greenspun

SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

Ambrose Bierce

That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A writer trying to get the story.

Gerald Clarke

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Margaret Anderson

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century -- commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.

Ambrose Bierce

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

James M. Barrie

I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.

Jacques Audiard

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

He taught me how to read as a writer.

Anthony Swofford

In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens.

Barbara Barstow

These writers' sleuths are engaged in an important endeavor. When they came out in the early 1980s, it was at a point of conjunction of feminism when readers were hungry for this kind of role model.

Joanne Dobson

They were amazing characters to play. It was really the aristocracy of writers. Most of the writers I've worked with since then came out of that school.

Ted Danson

[Applauding writer-director Audrey Wells for making a film] the audience absolutely loves, ... Our exit research gives us 90 percent in the top two boxes. We are heavily skewed female, but there were an amazingly strong number of couples Saturday night.

Chuck Viane

SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. So.

Ambrose Bierce

We're excited about it. It's going to bring recognition to this area and the local talent we have here. We've had gospel writers, rock writers, blues, country, contemporary. It's really been an eclectic group.

Janet Miller

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

John Shirley

I don't think anything else can be hopeful or accomplished if you have the fear that you will get arrested or prosecuted or censored, ... I saw a cry for help. So it was my goal to try to get writers whose work and whose name would be meaningful to the greatest number of people.

Michael Chabon

Writes particularly well of college girls and their doings.

Nancy Drew

In general, people know (Russell) was an artist. My joy is letting people know he was a storyteller and a writer, too.

Raphael Cristy

[Cunningham noted the same problem:] The Ivy League elites and East Coast editorial writers, ... simply refuse to believe that to most Americans-most of whom don't have over-priced degrees-faith, family and traditional values are far more important than making friends with France or preserving a deeply flawed government pension program.

Sean Cunningham

The more he talks about it, the more it brings the issue up. No matter what he writes, even if he wrote the best op-ed in the history of The New York Times, it would bring the issue back up.

Mike Hoover

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.

David Hockney

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Walter Smith

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Paul De Man

We have to think of society's portrayal of salesmen as not true to life but as that great American character making it against the odds, the hustler. It's not that we tend to think of salespeople as evil hucksters, but that the writers and directors see them as characters relying only on their wit, character and drive.

Dannielle Romano

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

Nelson Algren

We plan to make three feature-length movies for theatrical release this year, probably comedies because that is what works well for local production and we already have a stable of good comedy writers from our television sitcoms.

Tim Horan

When he follows the court's guidelines that dictate his behavior, he will find himself able to fulfill a handful of jobs, most of which will be manual labor. The first six months of his life will be spent trying to work for near minimum wage, spending half his free time answering questions from media outlets, book writers and more. Not a life I would enjoy.

Brian Martin

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Burton Rascoe

Unlike any other form of writing, the stories of episodic television require the blended imagination, talent, and tenacity of a staff of writers.

Daniel Petrie

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin

That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs.

Luis Fonsi

To become the best possible writer, one must keep learning and building up networks, which is why the publication and the mentors are so important. Our mentors and alumni especially provide a really good literary network that most writers cannot obtain.

Roy Burkhead

I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

Jack L. Warner

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

Rachel Carson

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

Ambrose Bierce

I'm proud of the book in a lot of ways. I think it reads well ... We encouraged our writers to write in their own voices.

Burt Feintuch

If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.

John Scott

(Wall Street Journal writer Troy McMullen) sort of lumped it together with Montana and Wyoming like wastelands, frozen wastelands, and made it sound like it's such a horrible burden to own such a property.

Garrett Veneklasen

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Don Haskins

Unusual thing: a European thriller writer whose work holds up as literature.

Ruth Rendell

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. 'More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!' So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew Beneath his hand the leg-long 'interview.' Barson Maith.

Ambrose Bierce

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude.

John Gregory Dunne

This archive has really achieved legendary status among people who follow the Beat writers.

Isaac Gewirtz

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

There was something very personal about shooting it here because we all grew up here. The writers all really wanted to push for here because it meant so much to them—doing a story about a kid growing up and coming into his own—to be able to shoot it in their hometown.

Ben Rekhi

I think Rob really has an incredible breadth of experience and sort of touches all the bases that the School of Art is involved with. He understands the life of a studio artist, the ambitions of young artists and what they do when they get out of school. He's a terrific writer, and I think it's a great appointment.

David Pease

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

We got so many letters from readers asking about it and so many pitches from writers wanting to write about it. Definitely there was increased interest.

Patty Onderko

William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all the performing arts, more profound and more widespread than any other writer who has ever lived.

Peter Selley

I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming an illustrator or a gallery painter, or those others who said, 'I'm going to go uptown and be a writer, I'm going to work for The New Yorker one day and escape this ghetto.' For me, there was no escape.

Will Eisner

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Jim Morrison

Springsteen's never written another 'Born In The USA,' ... He's written some amazing songs since then, though, that are well respected. I think it's a matter of growing as an artist and a writer.

Shawn Mullins

What I am trying to develop are straightforward commercial Latin films. We plan to go after the commercial side of the film business, and to institutionalize production, so that Spanish actors, writers and directors can see a future.

Jim Mcnamara

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

Getting your mind right means ... everyone in your business - every person who will be engaged in hunting your Elephant, every executive, manager, accountant, service representative, delivery person, mechanic, creative writer, and board member your Elephant might come in contact with. Bag the Elephant!

Steve Kaplan

We are thrilled to have Peter on-board to kick off this historic comic project. He is one of the most acclaimed comic book writers working today. The millions of Dark Tower fans are certainly in for a real treat.

Joe Quesada

Desperate scribes and headline writers were trying to save character counts.

John Thorn

I don't have any real "process." Some people in Nashville go in like an assembly line. They're able to go and write. My son runs a publishing company. He has writers that come down. They get together in a room with the people that actually make appointments, and write - which is great. I can't do that very well.

Charlie Daniels