Quotes About Writers

Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first day.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.