Top 1200 Story Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote 'The Dark Knight' with Chris, his brother. He wrote 'The Prestige,' the story for 'Memento.'

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to the pressure to write faster than was comfortable for them or the story.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

Sloane Crosley and David Sedaris are two of my favorite writers; they're the kind of writers who make you feel like, 'I can do this. I want to do this.'

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there's a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers' success!

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous.

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now you begin to see how powerful story is because it informs our worldview and our every action, our every justification is a story. So how can story not be truly transformative? I've seen it happen in real ways, not in sentimental ways or in the jargon of New Age liberal ideology.

Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.

I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are writing or to display what the director is looking for. You are the thing that everybody uses to get the story out.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading.

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.