Top 1200 Good Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

Unlike a lot of writers, I don't have any craving to be understood.

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

The best writers attempt to become alternative historians.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

As an actress I am always interested in the new writers.

Russian writers enjoy almost sacred status.

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

As an actress, I am always interested in the new writers.

Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. "So they're good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.

In my films writers are more important than actors.

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

Writers of literature make very little money.

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

Writers who do great work must be coddled and encouraged.

Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like.

I want to show that you can be a successful entertainment executive, be a good husband, be a good father, be a good friend, be down to earth, be a good person, and give back. If I can push that message out there into the world and pass it on to my son, then I'm OK.

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.

I'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things.

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

I guess the important thing for young writers is to read.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.