Quotes About Writers

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!

I think that money is devoted to serious journalism, with analysis, interestingly presented, by good writers can still sell newspapers.

They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

I think it's probably better to make a region your own, and then maybe you can go somewhere else, but a lot of great writers have stuck to one region.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.