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Giovanni Agnelli - I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
[ Any Believes Bestowed Books Characters Free Hasn Her Sense She Surprises Those Will Writers Writing]
Kamal Ahmed - Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.
[ Believe Ensured Futures Get Good Hold Ideas Just Magical Something Tend Their Then Writers]
Arthur Ashe - I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
[ Collective Fiction Get Influenced Literature Means Postmodern Probably Really Theorists Those Understand Writers]
Steven Jesse Bernstein - If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
[ Desire Efforts Information Knowledge Law Legal Likely Obtain Order Over Own Point Ponder Seek Some Unaided Writers Your]
Willy Brandt - I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
[ Area Become Blank Doubt Easy Find Front Huge Paper Patience Realise Respect Sheet Would Writer Writers]
Bear Bryant - Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
[ Accomplish Bad Define Fact Good Into Merely More Often Ones Opposite Reality Restate Than Truth Turns Will Writer Writers]
Julia Margaret Cameron - Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
[ Academics Accustomed British Early Few Force Get Groups Had Important Intellectuals Left Means Poets Shores Spain Travelling Very Volunteers Were Whereas Workers Writers]
Jimmy Cannon - All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
[ Deepest Hearts Keep Say Their Trying Writers]
Jose Canseco - If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
[ Begun Books Learn May More Perhaps Readers Than Their Writers]
Judy Collins - The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.
[ Also Ignored Mercury Qualities Rule Special Writers]
Francis Darwin - There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
[ Editors Good Many More Out Than Writers]
Kirsten Dunst - We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
[ Anything Around Balcony Blowing Bottle Conversations Fiction Figure Football Get Go Hotel How Kind Out Planet Sat Science Talk Together Tried Up Wine Would Writers]
John Dykstra - Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
[ Art Assumes Because Better Did Does Learn Lives Make Mean Our Should Something Summarize Teach Thinking Us Very Want Way Writers]
Charles James Fox - I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
[ Admit Along Annoyed Being Elsewhere England Fantasy Getting Good Had Harry Hope Light Many Novel Obvious Potter Published Read Readers See Soon Trouble Us Waiting Were Writers]
Samantha Fox - Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
[ Assuming Because Call Different Distrust Done Folk Go Good Healthy How Indeed Know Movie Paranoia Princess Rose Should Something Think Tv Way Will Writers Wrong]
Jerry Herman - All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.
[ Able Against Always Around Chances Could Environment Gave Go Grain Place Play Producers Provide Take Things Us Were Where Writers]
Faith Hill - From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
[ Any Bad Bleed Close Copiously Fall Groups Into Observation Review Secretly Those Two Visibly Writers]
Carol B. Hillman - Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
[ Although Catastrophes Fiction Foresee Inevitable May Problems Science Solutions Writers]
Gerald Jampolsky - Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
[ Aim Always Authenticity Bother Confuse Never Originality Ought Should Some Which Writers]
Charles Keating - I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
[ Book Books Greatest Had Hemingway Hurt Into Know Lots Made Mean Movies Much Novels Our She Should Some Their Too Turned Were Worry Writers]
Mila Kunis - The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.
[ After Challenging Changes Constantly Delivered Doing Get Go Home Midnight Script Shifting Sometimes Stay Thing Working Writers]
James Lick - What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
[ Article Because Context Else Furious Interview Just Makes Own Put Somewhere Take Their Them Words Writers Wrong Your]
Joseph Lister - Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
[ Divided Into Teeth Writers]
Antonio Machado - For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.
[ Beginning Control Form Group Living Novelist Other Placebo Whom World Writers]
Sophie Marceau - Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
[ Action Animation Classical Closer Give Hell Jazz Kind Live Some Stage Structure Talking Than Will Writers]
Elizabeth Montagu - And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
[ Because Care Love Want Write Writers]
Michel de Montaigne - For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
[ Able Accountant Almost Anyone Average Chooses Dentist Earned Equivalent Few Learn Living Since Their Very Work Writer Writers]
Ednita Nazario - We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.
[ Beautiful Because Enlighten Secret Secrets Seduce Share Suffocated Theatre Their Truths Us Want Writers]
Bill Nighy - Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.
[ Audience Economically Harnessed How Large Living Make Most Musicians Performance Relationship Royalties Sales Their Through Ticket Writers]
Victoria Pratt - The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
[ Crime Danger Fiction May More Readers Really Soon Than Threaten Will Writers]
Mitchell Reiss - France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
[ Always Among Even Fact Feels France Horror Most Poetic Poetry Prefer She Those Use Verse Whom Will Writers]
Billy Rose - It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!
[ Been Contact Egalitarian Get Great Make Open Other Place Readers Really Thinking Touch West Wide Wild Writers]
Barney Ross - No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
[ Boast Language Polite Rude Writers]
Bruno Rossi - I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
[ Admire Again Alice Ask Lot Male Margaret Much Novel Often Their Were Works Writers]
Helen Rowland - I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.
[ Because Bless God Hollywood Only See Strike Them True Want Writers]
Joseph Stiglitz - Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
[ Acquiring Because Books Buy Could Dissatisfied Method Most Oneself Poor Praiseworthy Really Regarded Them Ways Which Write Writers Writing]
David Trimble - Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
[ Because Why Write Writers]
Tennessee Williams - Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
[ Language Themselves Writers]
- I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
[ Am Buy Great Insane Obviously Pleased Popular Realize Such Take Vacation Very Writer Writers]
- I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
[ Around Back Behind Fame Get Good Got Hall Happened Look Many Myself Nothing Pencil Put Said Since Songwriters Think Time Took Turned Work Years]
- I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.
[ Fame Great Hall Kind Music Nashville Put Really Songwriters Town]
- Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
[ Answer Because Directors Lot Stress Well Writers]
- Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
[ Accomplished Achievements Asking Had Him Measure Measured Others Planned Them Writers]
- The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
[ Bound Conception Create Fact Future Just Modify Our Past Precursors Their Work Writers]
- I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
[ Always Am Aspects Attention Boundaries Conscious Formal How Little Many Non-Fiction Pay Stretch Surprised Their Trying Work Writers Writing]
- Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
[ Also Am Happy Hegel Insist Interesting Kant Terrible Thinkers Writers]
- 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.
[ Always Change Characters Choose Count Friends Handed Ill Make Mistakes Never Seldom Self-Contained Their Them Those Trouble Unhappy Writers]
- A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.
[ Actors Basically Storyteller Writers]
- There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
[ Bedroom Come Few Honest Honesty Once Out Own Personality Quite Reason Relationships Seem Some Songwriters Step Their Them Traits Writing]
- 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.
[ Books Enormous Experience Finding Get Heard Just More Much Pleasure Reading Unusual Want Writers]
- In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.
[ Fact Hard Lot Read Think Writers]
- I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
[ Certain Cliched Effect Fiction Film Had Hollywood Horror Movies Out Particularly Slick Stuff Terrible Think Turning Writers]
- Great writers are the saints for the godless.
[ Godless Great Saints Writers]
- A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
[ Education Enough Get Going Inspired Just Much Owners Possible School Should Were Would Writer Writers]
- Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
[ Anybody Direct Eleven Good Only Writers]
- My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
[ Adventure Alexander Breakthrough Discovered European Few Louis Name Reader Robert Scott Sir Stevenson Story Walter Writers]
- Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
[ Because Communicating Despise Done Hate Heat Proper Recipe Should Words Write Writers]
- I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
[ Fascination Figures General Genre Less Than Think Writers]
- Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
[ Away Between Bubbling Creative Disparity Fascinated Friends Inside Interest Interested Know Many Outside Process Us Well Why Write Writers]
- Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
[ Book Commission Doing Other Plenty Publishers Same Thing Think Want Will Write Writers]
- Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
[ Androgynous Bisexual Further Go Must Said Step Virginia Woolf Writers]
- Writers will happen in the best of families.
[ Best Families Happen Will Writers]
- 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.
[ American Back Forever Leave Literature Lives Looking Love Nostalgia Our Paradoxes Wait Writers]
- 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.
[ Each Friends Hard Idea Job Later Other Sooner Talk Two Work Writers]
- Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers.
[ Although Appropriate Both Called Constantly Day Differently Ecclesiastical Lord Name Never Primitive Sabbath Sacred Saturday Seventh Sunday Times Writers Yet]
- Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
[ Access Almost Difficult Hit Home Interested Larger Literary Lower Maybe More Nobody Novel Opportunities Other Publish Ranges Run Single Success Terms Today Triple Words Writers]
- I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
[ Because Borrow Company Enough Get Had Money Need Own Publishing Record Wanted Whatever Writers]
- I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
[ Account Big Clients Come Creative Executives Ideas Learned Often Regardless Respect Some Think Wherever Writers]
- I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
[ Also Experience Junkies Looking Outside Tend Think Want Writers]
- And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
[ Clean Course Day Days Easy Even Every Excuses First Litany Little Make Professional Rather Than Things Toilet Write Writers Writing]
- The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
[ Again Comedy Dean Doing Given Got Great Handed Highlights Hour Hysterical Love Martin Original Shows Sketches Some Their These Tons Variety Writers]
- I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.
[ Anyone Arrogant Creatures Early God-Like Incredibly Never Opinion Say Striving Teenage Told Wanted Were Would Writer Writers Years]
- The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
[ Aphorisms Each Great Had Known Other Read Well Writers]
- Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
[ Everything First Ground Ideas Important Magazines New Proving Sci-Fi Showed Up Writers]
- I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
[ Everything First Ground Ideas Important Magazines New Proving Realized Sci-Fi Showed Up Writers]
- I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
[ Admiration Contempt Motivation Ought Sometimes Wonder Writers]
- When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be specifically identified-only our student numbers appeared on the title page. I love that idea and still do.
[ Appeared College Editor Editors Idea Insisted Literary Love Magazine Neither Nor Numbers Our Page Specifically Still Student Title Writers]
- I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.
[ Actors Daughters Musicians Writers]
- The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
[ Always Being Cartoon Dark Decent Despite Essentially Failings Freedom Gives Human Humor Line More Normal Pushes Really Same Simpsons Sitcom Sophisticated Than Time Writers]
- There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
[ Animators Ask Improvise Inspired Sometimes Times Us Writers]
- 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.
[ Always Art Beautiful Compliment Exchange Greatest Happy Hear Inspires Most Painters Reward Should Very Work Writers]
- The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
[ Always Best Dull English Incomparably May World Writers]
- Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.
[ Alley American Appreciated Beatles Bob Dylan Form Pan Paul Sang Simon Song Songwriters Terrific Then Tin Whoever Wrote]
- Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
[ Amazing Artists Breeds How Just Many Musicians Success Town Volume Writers Young]
- 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.
[ Anything Art Artists Say Stop Talk Think Thinking Work Writers Writing Young]
- Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
[ Ego Excellent Good Greater Hundred Latitude Often Other Promises Things Writers Writing]
- I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.
[ Accompany Arrange Being Club Fairly Good Myself Never Other Perform Pretty Sing Sometimes Songwriter Songwriters Think Thought Ton Well]
- I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.
[ Able Been Blessed Caliber Different Great Just Myself Producers Right Singer Think Work Worked Writers]
- Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
[ Philosophers Professors Thinkers Write Writers]
- I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
[ Because Just Maybe Thing Writer Writers]
- I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
[ Best Friends Love Writers]
- Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
[ Good Here Need Out Plucking Writers]
- If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
[ Businessmen Good Much Sense Too Were Writers]
- Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
[ Accurate Attached Comfortable Feel Having However Labels Never Them Writers]
- The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
[ Deepest Early Imprint Influence Leave Life More Often Ones Reads Those Works Writers Youthful]
- The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
[ Common Meet Only Over Peek Quick Share Way Writers]
- Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.
[ Begin Certain Directors Funny Lines Mean Necessarily Nowadays Producers Said Their Want Writers]
- I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
[ Come Easily Lucky Plots Writers]
- 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.
[ Arises Better Good Happy Life Over Particularly Plots Question Supply Think Tragic Whether Which Women Writers]
- 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.
[ Assignment Best Directors Down Felt Film Films Give Just Low-Budget Make Making Money Never Often Other Producers Put Saying Shot Something Took Were Would Writers]
- At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
[ Beginning Career Groups Pompous Probably Risk Sounding Think Useful Very Writers Writing]
- The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.
[ Being Complimentary Designers Enjoyed Game Games Hearing Letters Loved Most Our Picture Playing Rather Screens Sending Spent Than Their Those Time Universally Us Were Weren Would Writers Writing]
- I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
[ Block Days Problem Spend Writers]
- As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
[ Deal Democracy Discussion Fits How Improvisation Know Many Means Much Negro Reading These Too Writers]
- Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
[ Allows Bring Continuity Experience First-Person First-Person How Human Job Metaphoric Occasions Opposed Our See Them Thinkers Threat Time Total Violence Willingness Writers]
- Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
[ Anonymity Assault Maintain Making Most Some Sort Videos Writers]
- Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
[ Age Bangs Being Dave Fallen First Following Having Journalist Kind Learning Lester Love Marsh Movies Music Path Probably Rock Then Writers Writing Young]
- It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
[ Afghanistan Always Because Case Certainly Events Key Mistake Move Proven Quickly Submissions Their World Writers]
- The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
[ Everybody Last Learned Lord Love Ones Sportswriters Taught Were]
- The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
[ Breaking Curve How Know Made Mistake Want Well Were Writers Your]
- People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
[ Die Falling Heads Their Typewriters]
- I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
[ Did Else Except Fascinating Happens Know Most Moving Overwhelming Something Write Writers]
- When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
[ Assigned Band Bands Begins Get Guitar Hate Hip Hit Hop Just Kind Love Music Name Rock Somebody Themselves Writers]
- Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
[ Course Day-To-Day Describing Draw Experiences Human Keep Largely Life Own Personal Relationships Separate Stories Tend Their Upon Writers]
- The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
[ Admire Best Learn Other Study Way Work Writers Writing]
- Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
[ Answer Asked Asking Book Come First Frequently Interesting Might More Second Their Them Why Writers Wrote]
- American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.
[ American Dangerous Live Margins More Ought Stand Writers]
- I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
[ Abstract Been European Expressionism Influences Jazz Major More Movies Than Think Writers]
- True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
[ Acts Alter Aspire Consciousness Deep Infiltrate Language Narrative Structure Terror Terrorist True Used Vision Ways Writers]
- Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
[ Considered Dangerous Jail Many Repressive Societies Them Why Writers]
- There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.
[ Blazing Five Were Writers]
- I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
[ Fighter Good Great Made Pretty Writers]
- They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.
[ Certainly Conversations Edit Much Network Page Particular Portray Pretty Same Scripts Show Willing Writers]
- There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
[ Also Charts Does Dominate Good Kind Paul Remember Simon Some Songs Springsteen Still Writers]
- The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
[ Bottom Come Eighth Ends Everybody Good Happening How Interesting Issue Line Loves Now Raymond Same See Show Starts Stories Struggling Up Which Writers Year]
- There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
[ Certain Sometimes Writers]
- Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.
[ Actors Again Always Been Change Complete Control Everything However Right Shows Terrible Then Where Writers]
- I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
[ After Deeply Even Getting Give Keep Letters Love Only Read Reading Rejection Tell Them Up Widely Write Writers]
- Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
[ Book Books Every Guides Light Other Their Use Well-Written Wilderness Write Writers]
- 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.
[ Am Anything Because Dreadful Fiction Know Knowledge Limited Our Really Say Science Sorry Talk Unofficial Usually Writers]
- The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
[ Children Definition Extraterrestrial Fancy Higher Life Many Order Our Own Soothes Than Writers]
- Writers are always selling somebody out.
[ Always Out Selling Somebody Writers]
- The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
[ Because Century Made Need Reason Terrifying Vacuum Witnesses Writer Writers]
- 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.
[ Book Compose Composition Down Every Hazard Just Sit Stake Themselves Time Write Writers Your Yourself]
- Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
[ Blogs Clearly More Now Phenomenon Readers Right Than Vanity Well Writers]
- The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
[ Anthologies First Long Nowhere Rest Run Writers]
- I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
[ Any Because Could Knew Know Live Never Real Writers]
- Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
[ Current Definitely Research Should Sounds Styles Writers Young]
- I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
[ Agenda Any Except Funny Neither Offer Profess Wisdom Worldly Writers]
- I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.
[ Any Days Discussing Learned More Much Other Part Poems Poets Powerful Progress Reading Sense Something Spending Than Them Travelling Us Which Working Writers]
- The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.
[ Becoming Beings Better Charms Condition Difficult Everybody Function How Human Idea Involved Redemption Show Think Towards Working Writers Writing]
- I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.
[ Criticism Heart Other Respect Take Think Writers]
- If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
[ Army Books British Might Monkeys Museum Typewriters Were Write]
- Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.
[ Australian Book Boom Easier Edition First Likely Local Makes More New Publisher Publishing Recently Sell Sf Sometimes Then Undergone Us Which Writers]
- I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.
[ Everywhere Get Need New Opportunities Published Think Writers]
- Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.
[ Astray Been Directions Drags Fashionable Flying Goes Kinds Led Lot Myself Off Often Pop Science Sf Times Writers]
- Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
[ Cannot Most Rock Rollers Write Writers]
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
[ Editors Failed Most Some Writers]
- There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
[ Give Great Kinds Ones Only Themselves Truths Two Writers]
- 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.
[ Artist Critics Listen Ones Read Reviews Time Want Write Writers]
- Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
[ Rarely Read Seen Should Sight Writers]
- If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
[ Actual Audience Comedy Down Dress Her Lady Laugh Make Man Old Push Stairs Up Want Writers]
- Writers always know whether you like them or not.
[ Always Know Them Whether Writers]
- There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
[ Accountants Careers Doctors Enough Lady Lawyers More Reason Same Songwriters Time Women]
- I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
[ Blood Love Modern New Unknown Works Writers Writing]
- It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'
[ Blank Canvas Down Front Gregarious Had How Life Lucky Marvellous Painters Say Sit Start Unlike Very Way Where Writers]
- An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
[ Awful Badly Credit Doing Gets Just Lot Ok Rather Thriller Women Write Writers]
- Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
[ Influenced Just Movies Thriller Writers]
- World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
[ Battle Biggest Continue Drama Ever Evil Get Good Greatest History Human Ii Imagine Love Many More Readers Stories Them True War Will World Writers Years]
- I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.
[ Began Ever Everybody Find Hand Heard Nearly Poetry Quite Their Trying Usual Way Writers Writing]
- They're hit writers. They're gonna write me a hit whether I wanted it or not you know? I could have put out a single a year ago with the Neptunes and maybe been writing now on top but that was not the path that I chose.
[ Ago Been Chose Could Gonna Hit Know Maybe Neptunes Now Out Path Put Single Top Wanted Whether Write Writers Writing Year]
- Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
[ Always Causes Creative Greater Represent Than Writers]
- The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
[ Any Break Conglomerate Diversity Doing Field Harder International Kind Less Living Made Make Much Multimedia Newer Only Overwhelming Resulted Triumph While Within Writers]
- I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
[ American Baseball Biographies Condition Contemporary Happened Human Into Jazz Just Literature Sci-Fi Something Write Writers]
- I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.
[ Actors Been Directors Double-Edged Star Think Trek Us Very Writers]
- The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
[ Attacked Attacks Being Both Diminish Director First Frontal Groups Guild Importance Producers Side Strength These Thing Through Trying Writers]
- I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
[ Among Clearly Confess Feel Myself Next Part Seriously Take Taking Themselves Trend Writer Writers]
- That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
[ Concern Major Prison Writers Writing]
- The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
[ Actors Agents Artists Basic Because Fact Gotta Nothing Reason Writers]
- Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.
[ Always Continually Emphasizes Everything Fixed How Known Much Other Papa Psychoanalytic Remains Unexplained Writers]
- I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
[ Alone Call Consciously English Make May Music Myself Out Sense Set Sound Writers]
- Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
[ Around Astute Basically Best Covered Era Every Pretty Resources Sinatra Song Songwriters Used]
- How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
[ Across Beyond Books Boredom Come Dying Get How Some Their Through Without Writers]
- I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
[ Doing Fun Good Lot Making Out Outlines Really Sort Sticking Takes Tends Them Those Very Writers]
- Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
[ Better Much Rock Roll Stars Than Tour Writers]
- You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
[ Being Between Bored Daydreaming Difference Doing Get Ideas Notice Only Other Time Writers]
- All writers are vampires.
[ Vampires Writers]
- You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
[ Around Even Know Look Slip Stuff Thinking Vampires Watch Watching Writers]
- I think writers are very anxious.
[ Anxious Think Very Writers]
- Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
[ Almost Calm Happened Life Lot Need Retire Seem Social Themselves Thinking Writers]
- Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
[ Accept America Art Because Dying Encouraging Follows Footsteps Form Here Most Necessity Published Talent Their Wisdom Writers Writing]
- Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.
[ Currently Five Go Happens Including Looking Lot Pictures Producers Producing Projects Reluctant See Sitcom Some Somewhat Stuff Talk Upcoming Working Writers Writing]
- I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity.
[ Come Companies Day Encouraging Exposure Forward Fresh Get Give Good Got Happy Important Opportunity Particularly Really Record Songwriters Such Talent Talented Think Tomorrow Work Young]
- Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
[ Anything Barns Bats Being Better Cliche Cliches Except Full Had Just Obviously Old Our Removed Rule Suspect Undoubtedly Writers]
- Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
[ Also Bad Description Dreamers Dreaming Dreams Good Important Job Our Part Public Realists Science See Sort Well Writers]
Topic: Work
- Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
[ Above Among Commonly Dangerous Even Exceptions Fatal Formerly Mediocrity Now Poet Prose Rarest Rise Sensibly Successful Those Very Writers]
- In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
[ Attracted Black Called Campus Communications Community Ed Emerged Francisco Got How Influential Invited Involved Little Other Play Poet Program San Semester Something State Students Such Writers]
- I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
[ Believe Best Craft Hard Hardest Hone Know Long Myself Really Songwriters Takes Time Work Worker]
- But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.
[ Am Avid Chose Country Earn First Great Living Many Photograph Reader Started Still Try Writers]
- 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.
[ Beauty Boils Brought Careers Demands Edge Extract Literature Living Meaning Memories Nerves Nightmares Out Their Truth Writers]
- As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
[ Arise Attaining Become Desire Ease Greatest Indolent Knowledge More Must Natural Necessarily Numerous Possible Readers Whence Writers]
- Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
[ Am Big Change Here Money Paying Words Writers]
- A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
[ Been Collaborators Great History Lot Lyricist Separate Songwriters]
- When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things.
[ Because Bring Character Different Enjoy Getting Good New Show Things Toy Try Used Whole Write Writers Writing]
- Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
[ American Great Newspaper Our Were Writers]
- It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
[ Actors Known Lousy Well Writers]
- It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.
[ Been Just Never Songwriters Unfortunate]
- Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
[ Acoustic Bass Dorsey Fabulous Guitar Johnny Played Singers Songwriters Steel Together Upright Well Were]
- A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
[ Brien Conan Lot Moved Other Our Things Writers]
- Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
[ Before Beginning Characters Comments Done History Know Make Remind Since Sometimes Tone Very Writers]
- The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
[ Already Also Anything Creating Done Fantastic Led Mike Only Original Repeat Scully Seen Stories Television Writers]
- 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.
[ Bizarre Bunch Funny Got Grew New Now Simpsons Some Stuff Tell Up Very Watching Writers Writing]
- I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
[ Aware Being Book Challenged Did Expectation Fail Falter First Increased Inevitably Live Never Next Pleases Prior Promise Sense Simply Stage Successful Their Up Way Writers]
- Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
[ Almost Basis Became Becoming Being Books Compulsive Daily English Firefighter Free Habit Had Having Lots Money Obsessive Swayed Teacher Thinking Thought Time Urban Which Write Writers Writing]
- I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
[ Bad Down Experienced Healing Hope Other Poem Poetry Potential Sit Through Way Will Write Writers]
- I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
[ Alienated Around Certain Extent Feel Going Looking Most Much Outside Stuff Think Time Us Writers]
- Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
[ Children Many Own Their Writers]
- There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
[ America American Country Feel Foreign Physical Size Something Still Write Writers]
- I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.
[ Anyone Else Entertain Influenced Interests More Own Than Themselves Writers]
- I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.
[ Actually Anything Book Dreaming Fun Get Got Lost Never Number Talking Track Very Want Won Write Writers Writing Written]
- It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.
[ American Brilliant British Charge Critics Fair Include Most Prejudice Rotary Some Them Would Writers]
- Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
[ Artists Bad Comic Good Most Very Writers]
- Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.
[ Because Concepts How Most Publishing Totally Unrealistic Works Writers]
- 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.
[ Advice Also Aspiring Garlic Give Helps Life Only Red Unless Whole Willing Wine Writers Your]
- Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
[ Depending Ethnicity How Open Outside Sex Their Vulnerable Wish Write Writers]
- There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
[ Come Complete Eventually Gave Internet Know Million Monkeys Now Set Shakespeare Statistical Thanks Them Theory True Typewriters Up Work Works]
- Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
[ Books Could Half Never Painters Paintings Tell Writers]
- Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.
[ Alas Always Industry Nature Overall Promotion Publicity Publishing Say Sometimes Things True Writers]
- Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
[ Experiences Many Own Promotion Publicity Say Their Things True Writers]
- But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
[ Another Because Been Behind Cast Did Down Fool Gay Just Looked Package Producers Role Show Think Turn Whole Working Would Writers]
- The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.
[ Before Date Even Gay Into Other Over Right Show Shows Slowly Started Subjects Taken Will Writers Year]
- I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.
[ Along Changes Come Dylan Generations Great Kind Liking Look Make Mean Stuff Think Want Whole Write Writers]
- As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
[ Aesthetic Citizens Make Note Our Positive Readers Realism Sense Sinners Us Wary Writers]
- There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
[ Acute Civilized Cured Endure Even Food Him Isolation Known Only Patient Poked Private Provide Rendered Room Science Solution Stages Stick Tamed Way Where Writers]
- If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
[ Advice Give Had Listen Say Talking Themselves Would Writers Writing Young]
- They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
[ Advice Fancy Give Had Listen Say Talkers Talking Themselves Would Writers Writing Young]
- Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
[ Forcing Forget Get Head Melody Notes Onto Precedence Ring Singers Sometimes Songwriters Take Their True Up Will Wind Word]
- What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
[ Always Anybody Because Been Believe Directors Edge Haven Just Kind Long Lose Lot Meant Period Producers Replica Seen Sometimes Talked Their Themselves Time Writers]
- Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
[ Artists Creative Irreverent Many Masterpieces Most Our Religious Satirists Stimulation Used World Writers]
- 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.
[ Advantage Approach Easiest Handle Main Major Many Omniscient Reason Select Writers]
- I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
[ Alone Because Dream Graham Greene Number Out Seek Telephone Using Want Writers]
- Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
[ Been Best Family Fantastic Great Greatest Live Nashville Our Places Raise Songwriters Town World]
- My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.
[ Friends Just Our Painters Really Rooms Sit Tend Think Writers]
- I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
[ Culture Dreams Else Feel Influenced Loss Love More Movies Other Own Popular Than Way Work Works Write Writers]
- 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.
[ America Charles Couple Journalist Long Only Other Photographers Prince South Through Trip Went Where Writers]
- I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
[ Advice Advising Ago Aid Anybody Book Courses Expert Had How Neither Never Nor Read Studied Until Write Writers Writing Year]
- It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
[ Art Because Culture Education Environments Into Many Seems Slip Their Virtue Writers Writing]
- We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
[ Been Begins Being Black Blacklist Censorship Color Just Line Lives Negro Our Us Writers]
- I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
[ Instead More Nature Observers Think Writers]
- I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.
[ Air August Chance Date Did Done Fast Got July Know Never October Reached Ready Screen Segment Single Start Writers]
- Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
[ Always Auditors Bottom Influence More Preachers Readers Their Themselves Write Writers]
- 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.
[ Did Disgusted Feminist Fine Guess So-Called Standards Suits Thing Were Writers]
- Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.
[ Days Latex Most Scientists Some Tex These Thing Use Word Writers]
- I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
[ Charge Commune Decide Material Python Special Thing Think Writers]
- I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
[ Believe Between Bit Conformity Consider Exquisite Heart Little Live Moving Night Outside Society Terribly Themselves Unless Writers]
- I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
[ Catholic Censorship Cervantes Good Had Instance Know Many Novels Produced Quixote Under Write Writers Wrote Yet]
- I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
[ Any Disagrees Myself Primarily Then Think Write Writer Writers]
- I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
[ Everybody Frightened Rush Think Tread Very Where Writers]
- Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
[ Fear Publishers Rush Translators Tread Where Writers]
- In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.
[ Many Ones Only Really Songwriters Viv Ways Were]
- What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
[ Balancing Become Difficult Face Having Life Lot More Much Now Promotion Public Side Something Think Writer Writers Writing]
- As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.
[ Child Did Ever Hand Loner Most Parents Read Said Upbringing Which Writers]
- I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
[ Belong Category Different Language Parents Speak Specific Their Those Write Writers]
- My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
[ Out Own Sensibility Steers Their Toward Writers]
- We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
[ Arab Intellectuals Internationally Loved Many Out Outside Recognized Respected Speak Us World Writers]
- Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
[ Dreamers Talk Write Writers]
Topic: Dreams
- Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
[ Accurate Always Around Artist Contemporary Going Had Life Most Musicians Official Painters Perception Poets Popular Really Seem Them Version Writers]
- 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.
[ Alas Also Being Cover Ever Fool Fools Found Human Public Race Rest Tracks While Wisdom Without Writers]
- I do enjoy working with writers.
[ Enjoy Working Writers]
- And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
[ Around Because Christmas Course During Family Had Many Much Music Obviously Our Piano Season Songwriters Through Useful]
- It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
[ Books Had Just Know Mean Most Really Something Themselves Think Way Writers Written]
- Writers speak stench.
[ Speak Stench Writers]
- It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
[ Age Around Because Cobb Comparing Deal Great Here Hurt League Lot Pressure Put Starting Throughout Writers Young]
- As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
[ Achieved Anymore Come End Find Goals Kind Must Myself Next Out Patience Persistence Set Take Tend These Things Those Win Writers Year]
- 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.
[ Any Author Believe Comes Fiction Most Other Personality Really Respect Through Writers Writing]
- Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
[ Broke Describe Fix Formulas Hopefully Kinder Might Mixture Others Some Sure Techniques Tested Than Tried Twists Unexpected Would Writers]
- Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
[ Business Computer Desk Get Into Isolated Live Lives Lonely Lots Quite Sat Solitary Sometimes Typing Very Words Writers Writing]
- I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
[ Interested Read Therefore Writers]
- That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
[ Actually Doing Done Good Know Many Money Possible Principal Reason Remain Thing Very Want Write Writers Writing]
- I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
[ Apologise Because Become Being Children Dangerous Know Memories Must Outer Playground Side Writers]
- Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
[ Conference Filming Giving Going Had Happened Nothing Press Say Set Spooky Supposedly Terrible These Things Told Were While Writers]
- The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
[ Commitment Had Most Respect Vision Writers]
- I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
[ Brilliant Chorus Just Lyrics Problem Some Song Songwriters Story Then Think Write Writing]
- Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
[ Always Metaphors Nothing Say Strain Writers]
- Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
[ Am Business Eyes Feel Good Guide Leaving Saying See Signposts Through Tour World Writers Your]
- All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
[ Behaviour Characters Great Human Root Their True Writers]
- Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
[ Actually Anyone Bad Because Cannot Claims Comment Complete Exceptionally Good Liars Lying Mean Myself Obviously Opposite Said Thus Whatever Whether Would Writer Writers]
- At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
[ Because Bunch Committee Edited Everything Lot Magazine Magazines Part Their Them Themselves Think Voice Were Worry Writers]
- I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
[ Dictate Dictated First Know Many Occasionally Passages Polish Speak Then Windows Writers]
Topic: Politics
- If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
[ Gives Just Lives More Something Struggle Support Than Their Touch Writers Writing Your]
- I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.
[ Actors Amazing Characters Coolest Each Episodes Follow Fully Instincts Job Level Other Their Things Think Trust Will Write Writers]
- Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
[ Accounting Base Because Books Culinary Home Marketing Own Public Relations Shows Six Sort Stuff Support System Team Where Writers]
- New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God.
[ Being Breed Dreamed Estimation Fiction God Interested Led Many Never New Remember Special Would Writers]
- However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
[ Albeit Experiences Far Fiction However Lives May Mine Need Own Pretty Some Stray Their Think Ultimately Unconsciously Way Write Writers Writing]
- 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.
[ Back Big Come Editor Enough Envelope Good Make Manuscript Many Mistake Much Stamped Temptation Too Writers Young]
- The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
[ Clear Continuing Created Declared God Had History Prophets Psalms Universe Were Work Writers]
- There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
[ Another Because Book Cases Close Discovers Likes Numerous Our Relationship Small Take Then Very Where Whom Writer Writers]
- To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.
[ Best Closely Director Draft First Go Job Make Movie Only Outline Past Producers Real Seventh Some Star Support Takes Them Then Try Very Whatever Work Writer Writers]
- But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
[ Also Attracted Became Come Experience Humor Kind Lives Men Own Same Their Were Women Writers]
- Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
[ Choosing Community Deal Directors Granted Great Living Lot Make Might Money Other Producers Things Whole Writers]
- I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
[ Across Beginning Board Directly Influenced Love Mary Very Writers]
- Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
[ Because Better Book Cliche Everyone Had More Old Practice Stories Tell Them Writers Yes]
- I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
[ Hyperbole Prone Sometimes Think Writers]
- 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.
[ Also Artist Artists Connects Example Father Friends Grew His Mainly Parents Up Were Writers]
- I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
[ Allowed Anymore Books Breakthrough Building Called Each Few Good Gradually Had Luck Odd Result Seen Slowly Something Starting Way Writers]
- Good writers are of necessity rare.
[ Good Necessity Rare Writers]
- Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
[ Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Put Safe Sterile Upon Writers]
- We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
[ Actors America Degree Directors Drama Everything Expose Master Only Program School Side Them Three Trains Want Writers Years]
- Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
[ Again Arm Because Capable Even Just Much Raft Read Return Said Shot Simply Since Sort Stylistic Suppose Them Then Want Were Whom Write Writers]
- I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
[ Art Artists Create Escaping Few Free How Interested Into Therapy Truly Us Using Victims Worlds Writers]
- You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.
[ Commitment Depend Directors Divine Happen Material Need Once Order Passion Producers Script Things Us Words Writers]
- Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
[ Any Black Circles Condemned Destructive Imposed Literary Outside Pale Quality Racism Silences Step Supposed Total Whatever Write Writers]
- You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is.
[ Could Directors Finished Gone Great Live Long Lose Made Man Name Producers Remember Screen Silent Stars Switch Talent Title Up Washed Were Where Writers]
- Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
[ Apart Both Ears English Few Matters Much Principles Prose Readers Rhythm Rules Seem Should Simple Sound Their Trust Where Writers]
- And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.
[ Because Certain Consider Ever Finding Fortunate Lifetime Looking Most Myself Plenty Something Spend Without Writers]
- Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
[ Business Entertain Entertainment Gives Lots Pleasure Readers Writers]
- One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
[ Aspects Collaborating Components Directors Film Filmmakers Five-Year Interesting Learned Many Most Over Period Project Two Writers]
- The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
[ Actually Allowed Did Even First Location Lot Night Shooting Weren Writers Year]
- Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
[ Been Education Escaping Fortunate Nearly Our Principal Regular Writers]
- At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
[ Another Book Books Create Form Interaction Mind Network Opposition Other Pattern Reader Readers Reinforcing Relationships Same Some Sort Stand Think Time Two Writers]
- At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
[ Adults Am Children Closely Grandchildren Grown Involved Many Other Quite Stage Still Up Writers Young]
- I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
[ Able Affected Attitudes Believe Came Character Event Good Original Out Own Sorts Style Think Way Which Work Writers Writing]
- My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
[ Course Decided Earn Evenings Had Late Living Mainly Many Most Night Often Other Seven Simple Theory Things Very Work Writer Writers Wrote Years]
- We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
[ Brought Circle Everybody Experience Life Own Small Table Their Very Were Writers]
- I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
[ Fear Inspired Just Most Think Until Wait Waiting Write Writers]
- One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
[ Also Develop Other Possible Producers Record Should Songwriters Thing Yourself]
- Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
[ Ability Innate Most Probably Songwriters Songwriting Successful]
- There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
[ Addictive Alcohol Become Big Fear How Involved Know Life Most Much Part Personality Something Songwriters Trying Unsure Very Which Your]
- Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
[ Arbitrarily Changes Chaos Condition Course Indefinitely Initial Lot Means Namely Nonlinear Often Outcome Particular Phenomenon Physics Rather Sense Sensitive System Tiny Used Vague Word Writers]
- The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
[ Sixties Their Trouble Writers Young]
- Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
[ Heard Neither Nor Read Seen Should Writers]
- Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
[ Been Business Forever Men Our Power Stories Told Valuable Wars Were Women Writers]
- I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
[ Close Dealing Might Minutiae Need Out Remind Scale Them Think View Which Whole Windows World Writers]
- I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start.
[ Electronic Encourage Enough Get Good Media Need New Off Publishing Readership Start Still Through Wide Would Writers]
- Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.
[ Get Greatest Industry Our Some Work Writers]
- So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.
[ Angeles Come Directors Every Everything Had Home Idea Los Met Network Out Runners Show Went Writers]
- Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together.
[ Alone Became Because Carrying Different Easier Even Feel Made Other Part Poet Poets Scene Sometimes Think Though Together Very Were Worth Writers Yes]
- I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
[ Come Fred Go Great Hang His Just Know Mean Melt Neil Out Recording Sessions Sing Sit Songwriters Up Used Would]
- I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.
[ Any Arise Breakfast Daily Down Eat Exercise Follow Four Hour Many Period Produce Realize Regime Schedule Set Sit Some Sort Then Three Time Where Words Write Writers]
- Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
[ Admit Autobiographical Few Willing Writers Writing]
- How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
[ Bank Did Doing Episodes First Had How Instead Our Put Season Strike Threatened Works Writers Year]
- My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
[ Air Always Because Came Challenging Cloudy First Great Here Irish Many Moody Mystical Sky Something Thought Understood Why Writers]
- I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
[ Aesthetic Approach Become Committed Excellence Gathering Literature Lust Movement Particular Press Something Together Wanted Writers]
- Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
[ Accurate Honest Keep Themselves Writers]
- Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
[ Almost America China Country Creative Expression France Frontier Germany Idea Revere Russia Shudders Still Their Writers]
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
[ Emily Experience Great Imagination Limited Out Really Room Sit Their Unlimited Write Writers]
- I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.
[ Appreciate Before Book Come Dinner Every Fall Golf Got Had Holes Last Lunch More Morning Much Our Played Recently Round Showed Since Started Then Thought Three Understand Up Went Working Writers]
- When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
[ Many Plagiarism Research Stuff Take Writer Writers]
Topic: Science
- Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
[ Been Bring Double General Likely Loss Manners Men Money Never Novels Readers Representing Robbing Romance Their Them Things Time Writers]
- When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.
[ Between Break Emotional Emotionally Fans Find Intellectual Interesting Myself Only Other Person Responds Some Things Traditional Writers]
- Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
[ Actors Good Liars Memories Writers]
- Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
[ Born Good Liars Natural Ones Writers]
- Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
[ Born Composers Good Keep Monotonous Perfect Problem Trying Understand Were Writers]
- Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.
[ Comedy Green Hills Ideas Script Series Together Worked Writers]
- 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.
[ Encourage Essence Poetry Something Taught Teach Them Think Very Writers Young]
- Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
[ Connor Famous Faulkner Make Most Our Poetry Reflect Same Sense Some Techniques Those Values Would Writers]
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
[ Almost Decision Instead Interested Made More Narrative Poetry Prose Readers Reading Than Verse Write Writers]
- Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.
[ Audience Experimental Find First Little Magazines Only Their Writers Young]
- Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
[ Almost Everyone Family Find Off Often Only Place Since Start Stories Subjects Take Their Writers Young]
- Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
[ Anything Art Disco Everything Many Misunderstanding Music Papers Serious Sound These Too Writers]
- Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
[ American Being Called Enjoy Native Some Writers]
- 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.
[ Ability Familiar Familiarize Imagine Mystify Power Self Strange Test Their Writers]
- 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.
[ Censorship Dread Fear Fearful Feel Flattered Laws Magic Primitive Print Should Show Suppose Way Writers]
- 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.
[ Best Black Good Great Had Mediocre Now Published Time Were World Writer Writers]
- On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
[ Does Fact Good Hand Influence Ireland Issues Level Many Mass Northern Other Place Some Unresolved Writers]
- When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
[ Ago Because Company Earned Fame Friendship Guess Hall Here His Inducted Into Must Proud Said Ted Way Williams Win Writers Years]
- It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
[ Anyway Bit Crapshoot Now Out Right Writers Young]
- And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns.
[ Afford Burns Heroes Important Other Poets Robert Started Them Thus Us Veneration Why Wonder Writers Yet]
- We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
[ Actors Actually Before Blood Contract Directors Emotionally Figure How Into Make Much Ourselves Out Projects Something Will Within Work Writers]
- We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.
[ Actually Because Cut Deal Enough Expensive Fast Get Had Know Lucky Money Month Only Really Singer Songwriters Things Today Worked]
- Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
[ Comes Design Far Good Great Lighting Pile Production Quality Really Sci-Fi Stargate Top Wardrobe Writers]
- When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
[ Gave Greatest Had Modern Stories Telling Thing Up Writers]
- My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
[ Five Names New Problem Right Six Takes Writers Years]
- The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.
[ Acts Added Amount Certain Comedians Comedy Finished Get Material Money Much None Paid Pay Publishers Song Their Them Up Use Very Would Writers]
- 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.
[ American Background Been Come Gone Negroes North Offhand Only Poverty Rural Think Write Writers]
- Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
[ Hotels Live Mind Really Soul Writers]
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
[ Asked Enough Everywhere Go Opinion Stifle Stifles Them Think University Writers]
- Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
[ Deal Get Good Hollywood Never Very Writers]
- Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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.
[ Asked Been Best Could Enough Everywhere Go Good Many Opinion Prevented Seller Stifle Teacher Them Think Universities Writers]
- Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
[ Any Bad Because Better Condition Conscious Consequence Customary Great Kind Losing Manners Novelist Our Overly Probably Produces Seems Such Than Them Will Writers]
- 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.
[ Great Greater Make Men Novels Say Than Theme Themes These Understand Women Writers Young]
- I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
[ Am Consumer Create Cultures Large Literature Mere Novels Reflections Serious Themselves Those Tokyo Vast Which Wish Works World Writers]
- I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
[ Almost Could Feel Fiction Head Never Poem See Somewhere Think Time Well Whom Works Writers Written]
- There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
[ Alcoholism Books Die Encouraging Essays Fine Gives Hyde Lewis Poets Role Society Some Them Writers Written]
- I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
[ Begins Duty Feelings Intensely Line Love Observing Our Own Powers Things Think Very Writers]
- Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
[ Accommodate Edges Give Group Most Response Roughest Soften Sometimes Strange Their Themselves Toward Up Wonderful Writers Writing]
- I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
[ Abba Because Had Hoping Idea Known Much Music Musical Obviously Pop Pretty Remember Said Telling Thought Tim Very Were Which Wild Would Writers Writing]
- In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
[ Attention Books Booksellers Come Get Help Libraries Men Mystery Often Print Reviewed Seven Stay Time Times Trying Were Women Writers]
- If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
[ Contemplation Forced Hell Own Special Their Works Would Writers]
- Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
[ Abstract Art Attempts Beauty Been Define Express Find Formula General Made Many Most Poetry Some Terms Universal Writers]
- It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.
[ Agree Allowances Am Apt Aware Certain Empty Great Indeed Make Ones Present Profane Reprehensible Sacred Stomachs Think Though Venture Very Well Were Writers]
- Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
[ Beggars Know Society Western Writers]
- I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.
[ Artists Beyond Cleveland Crumb Doing His Lived Look Mad Met Other Robert Step Stuff Took Were While Writers]
- I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
[ Book Comic Day Had Influenced Lot Probably Sun Think Writers]
- Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
[ Advance Been Conventions Deal Excellent Extraordinarily Extremely Given Good Lot Made Mystery Out Prepared Skill Their Thought Time Us Usually Welcome Well Wit Writers]
- All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
[ Else Interested Picking Somebody Style Up Voice Writers]
- Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
[ Contrary Film Forces His Imply Industry Many Nobody Process Sell Work Writer Writers]
- Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
[ Also Case Holds Sing Songwriters Traditionally True]
- As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
[ Claim Clones Commitment Empirical Equality Many Out Pointed Political Writers]
- Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.
[ Among Benefits Crowns Enjoy Entitled Even Gods Honour Indebted Individuals Numbered Only Palms Public Since Them Therefore These Think Well Writers]
- I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
[ Appreciate Artists Call Day Friends Fun Go Group Having Hike Job Middle Normal Really Writers]
- I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.
[ Certainly Close Creativity Heard Lives Material Modern Most Own Period Raw Serious Their Them Think Use Writers]
- Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
[ Accurate Clear Efficient Good Keep Language Say Those Writers]
- Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
[ Ability Definite Does Exactly Exist Function Literature Main Proportional Social Such Their Use Vacuum Writers]
- And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.
[ Advice Another Editor Get Give Go Junior Lunch Piece Point Suggest Take Where Writers]
- I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
[ America Early Ever Fiction First Heard Nobody President Racket Science Sixth Started Which Writers]
- Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
[ Alphabet Day Enough Letters Lose Make Mind Rearranging Spend Three Writers Years Your]
- The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
[ Age Aware Existence Greatest Mystery Our Writers]
- There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
[ Clever Enough Genius Much Plenty Talent Too Writers Young]
- 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.
[ America Business Commercialized Never North Publishing Seen Situation States Than United Worse Writers Young]
- Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
[ American Countries Give Hope Instability Intellectuals Ironically Latin Needed Their Writers]
- Writers are not meant for action.
[ Action Meant Writers]
- 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.
[ Acknowledgment Another Authors Comparing Discovered Former Gravest Latest Making Some Various Without Word Works Writers]
- You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
[ Actors Hit Minutes Producers Public Show Take Talented Two Uh Wonderful Wonderfully Writers]
- Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
[ Among Arrive Diseases Great Impatient Irresistible New Patients Pick Powerful Their Threatening Up Us Virus Writers]
- There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.
[ Asked Different Funnier Good Over Projects Reason Swear Swearing Tell Them These Times Weren Why Words Would Writers]
- Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
[ Comedians Pencils Pens Really Riff Them Writers]
- I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
[ Am American Definitely Doubt European Influenced More Than Writers]
- Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
[ Because Come Feel Gain Groups Outsiders Real Success Together Writers]
- 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.
[ Bestseller Each Know List Look New Other Pretty Sure Times Very Well Writers York]
- Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
[ Between Comedy Could Get Hardly Hour Through Time Us Whole Writers]
- Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.
[ Alan Because Building Company Course Hung Out Publishers Publishing Songwriters Were Where]
- I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.
[ America Believe Groups Information Networking Offer Romance Strongly Such Support Writers Writing]
- And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
[ Most Recorded Say Songs Songwriters Themselves]
- I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
[ Actors Always Artist Artists Audience Drag Easy Give Good Got His Inside Out Role Same Seen Singers Supposed Writers]
- Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.
[ Friends Guys Racetrack Sportswriters Were]
- Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
[ Editing Exactly Quarrelling Same Thing Writers]
- Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.
[ Fringe Lunatic Publishing Writers]
- Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.
[ Ideas Might Reason Write Writers Written]
- Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
[ Advice Awhile Beginning Done Finish Keep Lot Out Quite Sending Sf Write Writers]
- Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
[ Arbitrary Characters Fiction Happens Into Out Put Rules Science Work World Writers]
- Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
[ Go Hate Love Some Trials Writers]
- Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
[ Both Fight Groups Images Make Natural Own Politicians Rivals Same Territory Their Try World Writers]
- I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry.
[ Dry Running Suppose Well Worry Writers]
- I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.
[ Day Every Had Leave Many Physically Prepare Scraps Writers]
- I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
[ Books Get Good Kinds Knew Lot Made Makes Promises Read Try Would Write Writers]
- 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.
[ Chooses Each Express Language Making Might Needs Part Perhaps Them Tiny Use Writers]
- Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
[ Always Discover Endless Immense Literature Live New Other Parts Show Sure Trying Universe Which Will Worlds Writers]
- Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.
[ Accounts Actors Been Classics Directors Everything Forget Lot Make Mostly Nonfiction Now Off Reading School Some Sure Taking Time Writers]
- Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
[ Changed More Sportswriters Than]
- How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
[ Among Author Authors How Many Means Originator Writers]
- There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
[ Absolute Books Dogs Drink Even Germany Infinite Make References Water Which Writers]
- And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.
[ Anglo Apply Backgrounds Close Come Course Does Enough European Fiction Here Many Much Now Set Sf Since Some Those Writers]
- Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.
[ Affected Almost Anglo Background Backgrounds Certain Come Course Cultural Deny European Hard Lot Own Reasons Sf Their Things Think Those Way Whatever Would Writers]
- There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
[ Ahead Awfully Been Change Developments Hard Intimidating Keep May Pace Real Something Suggestion Technological Though Writers]
- The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
[ Also Always Companies Did Evil Fell Fight Into Journalists Laid Managers Much Music Musician Other Out Parts Poor Press Problem Think Trap Understand Usual Writers Wrote]
- Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.
[ Bad Editors Enough Good Had Know-How Liked Magazine Scripts Story Submit Well Whether Would Writers]
- I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.
[ Development Get Occupation Prime Used Working Writers]
- The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
[ Being Long Out Run Runs Series Thing Things Writers]
- Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
[ Am Challenge English Major Other Preserve Same Songs Songwriters Spanish Spirit Want Wanted Write Writing]
- With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.
[ Every Network Protective Shows Syllable Writers]
- I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
[ Before Born Decade Hot Imminent Next Often Say Were Would Writers]
- All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
[ Bad Forget Good Remember Reviews Same Thousand Writers]
- At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
[ Being Height Hounded Mccarthy Period Were Writers]
- Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
[ Big Curiously Full Life States Their United Work Writers]
- I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
[ Any Formula Great Haven More Most Same Stick Stuck Style Various Wanted Writers]
- Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
[ Even Got House Invited Kennedy Liked Man White Writers]
- Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
[ Artistically Because Dangerous Exhausted Falls Find Into Likely Magazines Out Own Places Quickly Routine Something Start Their Themselves Want Work Writers Writing]
- The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
[ Bringing Care Great Just Kept Out Repeated Them Themselves Writers]
- Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
[ Begin Fiction Form Likely More Short Try Writers]
- One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
[ Gets Human Itself Low Much Opinion Race Reason Such Wisdom Writers]
- I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
[ Also Feel Four John Luke Mark Matthew Pay Time Tribute Writers]
- 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.
[ Always Artists Born Categories Confuse Entertain Fine Genre Labels Means Nature Only Ostensibly Recognize Smarter Transcend Try Within Working Writers]
- I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.
[ Best Complete Day Enjoyed Evidently Had Hated Job Lot Mediocre Page Pride Produce Reason Some Three Took Two Very Work Writers]
- But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
[ Always Ceased Elsewhere Exist French Had Independence Long More Originality Others Regulator Religion Since Than Them Which Writers]
- This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.
[ Achievement Been Better Does Fertile Genius Homage Lack Polish Rendered Soil Than Writers]
- It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
[ Another Attributes Exhausted Get Profession Relax Strangest Thing Writers Writing]
- It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.
[ Acoustic Bit Could Courage Guess Kind Love May Melodic Most Music Part Place Popular Songwriters Think Those Took]
- Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.
[ Actors Actresses America Appear Artists Big Challenge Companies Country Go Grants Hamlets Major May Never Person Rarely Sprawling Touring Towns Where Will Writers]
- Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
[ Generation Only Readers Span Will Writers]
- Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
[ Capture Confusion Experiences Express Fear Generally Good Great Higher Joy Longing Love Lust Melody Mere Moods Most Music Obvious Occupies Ought Plane Politics Powerfully Rage Share Through Triumph Writers Yearning Yet]
- Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
[ Always Case Dry Far Ideas Imagine Least Long Other Over Own Priority Run Take Those Well Will Writers]
- 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.
[ Country Ever Government Great Having Loved Minor Ones Only Regime Second Why Writer Writers]
- For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
[ Another Country Ever Government Great Having Loved Minor Ones Only Regime Why Writer Writers]
- Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
[ Because Drowned Generally Get Language Lyric Lyrics Make Poets Poor Rich Too Why Writers]
- Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
[ Borrow Good Great Other Outright Steal Them Writers]
- I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
[ Any Band Believe Compositions Country Feel Give Hearing Impulse Leader More Other Played Still Than Unpublished Writers Young]
- I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
[ Get Learned Machine Morning Never Paper Piece Put Start Their Those Typewriter Understood Up Writers Writing]
- My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
[ Being Condition Enlarged Enriches Horizon Human Humanity Listening Music Nothing Opera Painting Poems Reading Seeing Some Struggle Volatile Whatever Which Writers]
- Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
[ America Approach Before Entity Even Guild Potential Producer Production Register Should Show Treatment Up Write Writers Your]
- I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.
[ Fans Heard Musicians Think Underrated Writers]
- Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
[ Control Creation Declared Delusive Direct Distribution Duty Economy Encourage First Many Nation Political Science Second Such Theories Upon Wealth Writers]
- George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.
[ Alot Basically Cuz Days First George Getting Go Himself His Independence John Know More Paul Started Things Those Wanted Way Went Were Where Writers Writing]
- I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
[ Always Closed Firmly Great Mouth Noticed Portraits Really Writers]
- Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
[ Above Below Clowns Little Seals Trained Writers]
- It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
[ Forty Make Nobility Now Our Style Their Unreadable Which Will Writers Years]
- In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
[ Achieved Century Domain Eighteenth Great Indeed Literature Many Peculiar Pure Their Thought Triumphs Were Writers]
- In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
[ Among Artistic Character Displayed Earth Genius Greatest His Itself Less Lived Quality Ranks Sheer Simply Thought Upon Very Writers]
- Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
[ Age Aristocrat Fact Gives His La Majority Peculiar Tone Unlike Work Writers]
- And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
[ Change Character Come Creative Forever Fresh Good Great Hold Keep Personality Relationship Some Stuff Support Team Trying Up Writers]
- Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
[ Entity Eventually Feel Fiction Forms Many Single Their Unified Want Work Writers]
- Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
[ Accurately Again Because Better Characters Doubt Everybody Knows Male Men Much Nobody Over Represent Surprised Than Understand Women Writers]
- Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.
[ Country Give More Places Than Towns Writers]
- Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
[ Ayn Because Compassion Economical Fiction Her Huge Humor Impact Lousy Major Message Mind Off Passing Philosophical Rand Really She Some Virtually Writer Writers Writing]
- The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
[ Coming Itself Keep Managing Miraculous Show Something Turn Up Well Writers]
- But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
[ Hear Keep Men Pitch Something Sometimes Talking Will Women Writers]
- It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
[ Cast Doubt Intellectuals Job Perfection Writers]
- When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
[ Army Case First Foreign Intellectuals Invasion Magazines Newspapers Repression Targets Writers]
- Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
[ Burden Culture Onerous Placing Represent Responsibility Writers]
- On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
[ Always Been Business Devices Hand Lonely Mean Other Own Rely Supposed Their Writers Writing]
- I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
[ Actually Beatles Chords Great Learning Remember Songs Songwriters Thought Were]
- The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
[ Fiction Long Only Science Scientists Some View Writers]
- There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
[ Book Except Good Responsibility Satisfy Say Social Write Writers]
- So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
[ Advice Also Around Between Constant Counselors Experiencing Extent Flow Going Had Life Line Much Real Reality Show Take Television Thin Writers Yes]
- The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
[ Allows Artists Become Depth Humor Longer Nation Possessed Rather Regarded Respected Suspected Than Writers]
- There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.
[ Filmmakers Latin Latinos Lot Now Right Too Writers]
- I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
[ Always Amazed Beginning Bland Days Everything Feel Must Plan Tell Their Very Writers Writing]
- Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
[ Believe Characters Dreams Female General Into Line Male Myself Novels Our Perhaps Put Something Such Walk Well Writers]
- What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
[ Between Contrast England Exists Intellectual Revolting Slavery Superiority Women Writers]
- Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.
[ Directors Expect Get Men More Producers Should Us Why Women Writers]
- What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.
[ Actresses Admire Companies Create Material More Need Older Own Production Some Their Truly Women Writers Writing]
- I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.
[ Earth Forward Good Hard Last May Must New Put Themselves Thing Think Urged Very Writers Young]
- I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.
[ Dirty Down Her Kind Make Starting Take Taylor Thought Were Writers]
- Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
[ Capital Clubhouse Else Explain How Letter Look Middle Read Sportswriters Stories Sure Their Women Word]
- Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
[ Alone Bloom Dare Decay Disreputable Early Go Incorrigible Late May Writers]
- I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
[ Agony Enjoy Joy Meant More Most Sometimes Tell Than Think Will Writers Writing]
- As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
[ Am Author Beauty Cat Cats Grace Inspiration Love Many Motion Much Mysticism Only Power Suggests Surprised Think Wonder Writers]
- Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
[ Assume Certain Civil Experience Follow Formalities Life Listen Own Place See Smart Sometimes Songs Tells Things Very Way World Writers]
- Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
[ Active Cannot Choose Literature Lose Made Many Stillness Time Virtue Which Without World Writers]
- Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
[ Audiences Drink Others Some Take Writers]
- That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
[ Bad Because Books Busyness How Many May Recalls Sad Spared Until World Writers Yet]
- The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
[ Creative Dilemma Endeavors Felt Fiction Other Perceived Science Will Writers]
- Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
[ Another Borrowed Imitation Judicious Most Nothing Original Originality Writers]
- As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.
[ Could Create Earlier Literary New Reality Said Vision Writers]
- I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
[ Active Always American Apolitical Comes Even Missing Out Poetry Point Pointing Political Politically Question Think Towards Tradition Which Write Writers]
- Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
[ Art Bad Better Book Deliver Earth Good Live Make Matter Person Say Sure Then Us Way Write Writers]
- It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
[ Accordance Adapted Animals Been Consider Custom Fixed Generally Habits History Instincts Natural Organization Point Specially Structure Take Their Them Writers]
- 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.
[ Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility Kind Myself Often Other Please Reader See Think Writers Young]
- This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
[ Between Contemporary Descendants Differences Early Fifties Might Postmodern Sixties Start Talking Their Way Writers]
- Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
[ Been Call Copy Early Editor Few Shock Spared Vary Wake-Up Writers]
- Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
[ Headline Headlines Lives Outstanding Save Specialty Tell Their Will Write Writers Writing]
- 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.
[ Am Come Differ Dread During Gods Hope Immortality Kings Known Life Lost Much Only Other Own Past Prey Sake Seen Too Vain Weary Write Writers]
- The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
[ Also Full May Readers World Writers]
- Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.
[ Audience Best Business Children Comedy Funny Gone Hire Material Only Our Play Straight Trouble Us Were Why Would Write Writers]
- It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
[ Another Chain Editor Expect Follow Food Obliged Story Their Vision Where Working Writers]
- Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
[ Concern Could Good How Look Make Only Themselves Title Unfortunately Whose Writers]
- It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
[ Actors Also Anyone Because Comedians Interesting Kind Material More Narcissism Own Perform Risk Sexy Stand-Up Than Their Writers]
- 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.
[ Ethnic Insulting Labels Put Quite Really Regional Restrictions Them Think Universal Work Writers Your]
- All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.
[ Associate Closest Monotheism Period Unity Way Worship Writers]
- I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
[ Arts Because Business Degrees Even Find First Get Information Learn Lot Necessity Other Research Sciences Should Skills Social Think Trying Writers Writing Young]
- Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
[ Alike Destinations Knowing Mesmerized Their Travelers Writers]
- It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
[ Business Celestial Could Everybody Had Jokes Layers Level Major Meant Mechanics More Onion Than These Writers Your]
- Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.
[ Any Argue Could Easily First Game Great Ingredient Jeopardy Key Known Makes Most Part Producers Show Vital Were Writers Writing]
- The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.
[ Areas Classes Classical Elizabethan How Live Painted Playwrights Pretty Showed Them Writers]
- The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.
[ Been Both Doors Every Exist Farm Hundreds Lures Magazines Many Month Most New Pulp Ranging Readers Sealed Serve Short Slick Stories Teams Used Writers]
- 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.
[ Altogether Context Deal Destroyed Distorted Either Great Incongruous Juxtaposition Matter Meaning Mine Out Quite Quoted Sentence Some Suffered Which Writers]
- That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.
[ Challenge Different End Find Got Growing Had How Know Liked Lyric Many Read Really Since Sing Song Songwriters Talent Tell Then Thought Try Up Wonderful Would]
- We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him.
[ Although American Billy Composers Great Heritage Him Include Joel Kids Many Modern Musical Other Songs Songwriters Teach Their Through Too Writers Written Young]
- I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
[ Every Ghost Mail Message Personally Piece Published Write Writers]
- Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
[ Ever Happy Neurotic Too Writers]
- I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.
[ Bring Buy Encourage Field Fresh Go Importantly Into Keep Material Most New Only Out Please Trying Way Writers]
- Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!
[ Changed Editors England Fantasy Get Impact Live Lives New Publisher Since Technology Work Writers York]
- Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
[ Able Being Create Hear Knack Listening Need Said Voices Writers]
- There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
[ Actors Against Basically Businessmen Get Got Negotiating Professional Rhetoric Why Working Writers]
- My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.
[ Army Clearly Combat Every Experience Feeds Influences Into Just Life Load Major Many Must Need Now Same Think True Understand Were Whole Writer Writers Writing]
- And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.
[ Appreciate Doing Each Example New Novel Other Robert Something Stone Tell Writers]
- But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
[ Alert Dissatisfied Does Feel Goad Hard Keep Little Live Lot Makes Restless Tend Them Writers]
- Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
[ Anything Because Else Many Much Started Stories Time Writers Writing]
- There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
[ Again Almost Doing Fall Inevitably Into Same Start Thing Writers]
- I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
[ Concerned Find Getting Imposing Judgements More Original Own Project Rather Sensibility Strengthen Subjective Tastes Than Their Them Voice Writers]
- I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
[ Could Devotion Most Poetry Quite Real Sure Sustain Takes Talent Would Writers]
- Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
[ Insert Passages Philosophy Poetic Realism Revert Some Texts Their Them Underlying Uphold Writers]
- 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.
[ Desperation Disappointment German Group Hopelessness Impossible Jew Jewish Language Living Make Misery Much See Today Totally Write Writers Writes]