Quotes About Writers

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, 'It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise'.

I'd heard much about the showcase and seen half a dozen dumps like it. It was one of those phonily "artistic" dives, where pale poets quote blank verse to blank people, where bands honk "modern" dissonances as background to sonorous verbiage. Here gathered painters and writers and poets and sculptors and all sorts of people who talked in lower case, like the showcase sign outside. It wasn't much of a place for laughs.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

The great gulf between the story told by the young reporters and the story that military people knew as their truth may be the reason that, almost a half century later, the Vietnam War remains the source of a cultural rift in America. Today a small but growing group of writers is looking back and finding a different story than the one told by many reporters of the day.

August] Derleth tried to prevent any other (non-Derleth-approved) writer from writing Cthulhu Mythos stories.If Lovecraft had wanted bad writers to avoid Cthulhu Mythos stories, he wouldn't have written back to August Derleth.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial, said Anne, rather scornfully. Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since independence have held it to account

Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because "given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?" In the end, Thoreau, Whitman, Hafiz, and a dozen other writers put me up to the task of seeing if I dared to "live a life worth living.

men I could ever be interested in, writers and shrinks. Because they both have emotional curiosity. This

With writers, it's frequently the same. We all want faith to win out over doubt.

I am eternal. I am the night. I am the day. I am forever. And who are you?" "I'm Skulduggery Pleasant." "Oh, hell. (The Horror Writers' Halloween Ball)

Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse.

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.