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The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.
Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.
Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.
I love any books by Kelly Sue DeConnick or Marjorie M. Liu; it's lovely to have successful, talented female writers doing great work in comics.
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.
I think, in reading a few sentences of text, you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers but in lyricists as well.
Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both.
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.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.
I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.