1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one in their head that rarely turns off. Elizabeth Berg

Reputation Other Distracted Rarely Voice Writers Head Because Always Off Being Tuned Turns

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. Elizabeth Gilbert

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At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new. Elizabeth McCracken

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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. Elizabeth Moon

Myself Fans Other Responds Find Some Only Emotional Writers Emotionally Between Traditional Intellectual Person Break Interesting Things

I think most new writers are better off going with traditional publishers who will actually, at a minimum, edit your work, package it well, and market it for you. Ellen Datlow

I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child. Ellen Gilchrist

Writing Care Babies Too Nursing Dressing Writers Taking Conceive Know Single-Minded Child Children Story Whether Stand Interrupted

This is not the story of Elektra from the comics. We're telling the story of 'Daredevil.' In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight that Elektra is quite manipulative and doesn't seem to have a conscience. Elodie Yung

Daredevil Telling Seem Tendencies Writers Highlight Accentuate Comics Quite Wanted Story Manipulative Aspect Elektra Conscience Her

Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So when it comes to 'Elektra', they didn't follow one of her specific story lines, you know. They really tried to capture what comes through the comics, but there's not one specific storyline. Elodie Yung

There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class. Elsa Schiaparelli

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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emil Cioran

Philosophers Write Writers Professors Thinkers

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood. Emily Ratajkowski

You Women Control Think Changing Characters One-Dimensional See More More And More Directors Writers Taking Female Female Characters Male Lot Hollywood Really

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene. Emma Donoghue

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I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people. Emma Stone

Me People Collaborate Able Impacted Directors Writers Part Idea Come Like Ideas Up Same Movies Produce

'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth. Eric Balfour

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I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do. Eric Stoltz

I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is. Eric Van Lustbader

You Whatever Way Right Way Ways Write Writers Wrong Wrong Way Lined Up Get Different Process Which Mean Your Different Ways Right

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. Erica Jong

Writers Rave Like Most Reviews Forgotten Vicious

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. Erica Jong

Met Feminism Pleasure Writers Pushing Gotten Lot Younger Worked Teaching

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen. Erin McKean

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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet. Ernest Cline

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You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live: the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is. Ernst Lubitsch

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