Writers Quotes

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I do enjoy working with writers.

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.