Writers Quotes

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.

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.

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

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

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.

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.

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of 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.

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

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.

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.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

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