Quotes About Writers

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.)

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ideas with which we've learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

And the diseases from which we civilized people suffer most are melancholy and pessimism. So I, for instance, who can count so many years of my life during which I lost any inclination to laugh - leaving aside whether or not this was my own fault - I, for one, feel the need for a really good laugh above all else. I've found it in Guy de Maupassant, and there are others - Rabelais among the older writers

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

It's difficult to tell which of those brothers is more foolish," Grandmother whispered to Isolda, "Jakob or Wilhelm. They live in a fantasy world of their own." Shaking her head, Isolda agreed. "Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

What's wrong with writers?" he asked. "A lot of them hate the world and want to change it, build Utopia." "I don't." "Good. Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

If we want good stories, writers should be given their due.

I'm envious of writers.

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.