Writers Quotes

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

Writers speak stench.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

All writers have the idea that they are famous.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

TV is the place that writers want to be.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

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

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Only bad writers think they're good.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.