Quotes About Writers

Aaron always maintained that genre writers were formulaic, predictable and had no respect for Craft. And romance was the least appealing of all the genres. Why bother reading a book when you knew what the outcome would be?

To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y'all helped grow up to be writers

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

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

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.