Quotes About Writers

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.

It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not good for society but it's good for the comic writer.

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

You are crazy! whispered Meggie. You're a total lunatic! But her opinion did not impress Fenoglio in the slightest. So what? All writers are lunatics!

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago—they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it

May the new era be an era of liberty and respect for everyone--including writers! Only through liberty and respect for culture can Europe be saved from the cruel days of which Montesquieu spoke in the Esprit des lois: Thus, in the days of fables, after the floods and deluges, there came forth from the soil armed men who exterminated each other. Boook XXXII, Chapter XXIII.

The air in the library rooms was silent, full of ideas, the thinking of the writers of books, the thinking of the readers of books.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,—criticism of writers by readers,—this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society. If

Indeed, where would modern anthropology be without the pioneer work of salacious travel writers?

For the fashionable gentlemen of the aristocracy, elegant eating and gambling clubs, such as White's and later Brookes's and Boodle's, were starting to spring up in St. James's. For the burgeoning new class of writers, journalists, professionals, and intellectuals whose company Franklin preferred, there were the coffeehouses.

A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings.

You were right about writers." Her voice was a whisper. "How's that?" "They die. Their words don't.

A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings. I

Writers are not like other people. We are the piece-keepers. We gather and guard. Holding fast

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.