Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm living the dream! I just want to tell actors and writers it's never too late, and it can happen when you least expect it.
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.
I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.
When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.
It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they are.
In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
Luckily, with 'Insecure,' we have really great writers who get it and work hard to give Kelli layers for me to explore as an artist.
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and often male.
I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.
The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town and write some country tunes.
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.
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have to write about certain subjects.
Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
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.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.