Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.
I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.
Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.