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Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

My writers on 'Liv And Maddie' have started a running joke to try and sneak as many 'literally's into the script as they can to throw me.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.

No one writes for me exclusively, nor do lead roles come by that easily. 'Dulla Bhatti' was one, but I was so disappointed with the film.

Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.

I'm turning into one of those people who writes to the actors on 'Coronation Street' - a really obsessive fan.

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.