A Quote by Hilton Als

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Hilton Als

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Hilton Als
American - Writer
Born: 1960

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers me more in a movie than an actor playing a writer, and you just know he's not a writer. Writers recognize other writers. Ethan Hawke is too hot to be a writer.

B. J. Novak

WWE has a very strong affiliation with Make-A-Wish, and we can provide a great experience. It's extremely flattering that for one wish, a family would like to hang out with you. There's nothing more flattering than that.

John Cena

There's nothing more unforgivable than someone who thinks he knows more about yourself than you do.

Helen Nielsen

The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

Jill McCorkle

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Christopher Bailey

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too precious with the words. If you're a writer-director, you can see what you're doing and see your work in action, so I think you can correct it right there and still not compromise yourself.

Dennis Farina

The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has moved on.

John Updike

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

David Strathairn

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Joy Williams

Do your homework and know your business better than anyone. Otherwise, someone who knows more and works harder will kick your ass.

Mark Cuban

It's dead flattering, isn't it? I have got a big gay following. I actually find it more flattering when a bloke comes on to you than a woman. I've even found myself flirting back sometimes!

Kelvin Fletcher

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

James Baldwin

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

William Gaddis

Once a month, go to lunch with someone who knows more about your business than you do.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I'm going to be playing in something, because he's envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.

Doug Jones

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Henry David Thoreau

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