Top 1200 Good Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I want to be one of those serious, moody writers.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Writers write about what worries them.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

Great writers probably shouldn't be ranked, at least not by me.

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I've found that writers who don't read really can't write.

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

The other thing - and writers can say whatever they want - is casting. You need to find a person who can inhabit that role, who can not sugarcoat the bad stuff, and not be too hard on the good stuff, but who can come across as a three-dimensional human being with some depth and some thought about what they're doing. When you find James Gandolfini or Jon Hamm, someone who can inhabit this role but still has a natural humanity to them, no matter what they're doing? It's a gift.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Even writers need relief from words.

Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

There are distinctions between Indian and Pakistani writers.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

Publishing and film are such different worlds for writers.

How few writers can prostitute all their powers!

Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

Writers have always been very underrated.

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Writers, most of them, don't have a lot of resources.

Most of our writers tend to be recorders.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Tchaikovsky was one of the great melody writers of all time.

The Guild is the authoritative voice of American writers.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.