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Tag Name "Writers" (2299)

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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Anne Rice
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Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.
Terry Gilliam
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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong
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Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
William H. Macy
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
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Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
Steven Pressfield
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
Emma Donoghue
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Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
William S. Burroughs
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
Iris Johansen
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Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.
William Safire
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Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.
William Saroyan
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Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.
Eric Idle
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Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.
Mason Cooley
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Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane
Hope Edelman
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Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
Susan Orlean
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Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.
Matt Fraction
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Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read coming up as a writer, that helped form my ideas of what it means to be American - and an American writer. I'm always in conversation with them.
Micah Perks
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Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
Beverly Cleary
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Bill Walsh
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Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
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Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
Gloria Steinem
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
Wole Soyinka
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