1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness. Dani Shapiro

Witness Job Our Only Writers Imagine

At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say. Daniel Alarcon

Say Something Writers Most Who Basic Level Appreciate

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows. Daniel Gillies

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Foreign writers - especially Germans - often feel that Shakespeare is really one of them, that he was somehow accidentally born in the wrong country. In much the same way, leftists sense in their bones that he was a radical, rightists that he was a Tory. Daniel Hannan

If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life. Daniel Kaluuya

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories. Daniel Keys Moran

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Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. Daniel Levitin

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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots. Daniel Mallory Ortberg

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I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road. Daniel Woodrell

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In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. Danny Glover

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I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. Dara Horn

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Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat. Darin Strauss

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Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true. David A. Adler

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I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement. David B. Coe

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I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the tradition of the young great writers of the '60s and '70s, but it hasn't turned out that way, or at least there are no other writers around that I look at and think: 'Wow, I'm outclassed, I need to get out of this business.' David Berman

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I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. David Cassidy

Work Good Musicians Band Writers Takes Theater Really Team Player

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters. David Crane

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Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them. David Gerrold

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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering. David Grinspoon

Best Community Think Thinking Writers Scientific Doing Discovering Very Aware

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