Writers Quotes

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

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

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.