1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns. Jesse Kellerman

Good Writing Mimicking Other Out All Writers Relinquished Writers Never Patterns Ear Start Speech

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore. Jessica Hagedorn

Wonderful Humor Other Type Latin Latin American Definitely Magical More Voice Writer Writers Term Know Terms Well Been Very Close Than American Any Just Influenced Anymore Realism Much Means Used American Writers Fatalism

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision. Jewel

Respect Commitment Vision Writers Had Most

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic. Jewel

Love Creative Amazing Too Tool Books Kids Out High Would About High Standard Outlet More Poetic Write Writers Children Fantastic Really Standard Teaching Creative Outlet Thing Imaginative

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience. Jez Butterworth

Good Responsibility Think Neighbors Writers Audience Any

After 'Nikki' and 'Steve Harvey,' I had written on a show called 'The Oblongs,' which was pretty well respected and had a lot of 'Simpsons' writers on it. So I was a TV writer with an interesting voice at that moment. Jill Soloway

Respected Harvey TV Pretty Voice Writer Writers Had Written Simpsons Steve Well Lot After Which Interesting Show Moment

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places. Jill Soloway

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off. Jill Soloway

Day You Together Every Day People Writing Feeling Every Collaborative Television Laughing Ten Writers Heads Like Off Room Really Your

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information. Jim Boeheim

Hate State About Case Writers False Want Information Use Thing

Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged. Jim Crace

Myself Writing Every Hundred Those Immensely Out Only Writers Count Never Privileged Get Gets Short Who Published Career Careers

I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different races, people of different ages, who are helping write the routines. So I am seeing things from other people's perspectives, which I never really had to do before. Jim Jefferies

Me People Sex Before Enjoy Other Seeing Having Write Writers Never Had Because Around Am Opposite Opposite Sex Lot Getting Different Different Ages Influences Which Races Perspectives Ages Really Researchers Who Helping Now Routines Things

If you're a writer, the insight of other writers - if there's some kind of Holy Grail message on how to deal with writer's block or how to deal with any problem that can come up - whether you're writing about yourself or a group of people, I find that very interesting. Jim Rash

You Yourself People Writing Problem Group Other Kind Find Insight Some About Writer Writers Come Message Deal How Block Up Very Any Grail Whether Interesting Holy Holy Grail

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic. Jim Rash

Community Think Topic Writers Within Very Interesting Room Created

I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers. Jim Rash

Looking Believe Evolve Writers Like Always

I've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so many others - that it would take a page or two to list them all. Jim Starlin

The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows - the writers are more at ease in terms of mapping out the trajectory of the story and the characters. Jimmy Smits

Great Ease Out Characters About More Only Writers Cable Since Great Thing Terms Trajectory Story Working Shows Mapping Season Thing

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller. Jo Nesbo

Best Crime Made Definitely At Least One Scandinavian Would Thriller Could Writers Had He Written Name Felt Least Go Been Norwegian Fiction Wanted Literary Literary Fiction Show Who Many Novel Compete

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers. Joachim Frank

Writers Observation Very Often Subtleties Meaning Really Many Expressed

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. Joan Didion

Experience Shifting Live Our Entirely Writers Freeze Ideas Learned Narrative Line Imposition Which Disparate Actual Actual Experience Images

Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion

Somebody Out Writers Always Selling

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure. Joanna Scott

Art Needs Change Pressure Thrive Past Plenty Kind Shakespeare Writers Davis Put Acceptable Narrative Accessible Limits Test Methods Current Any James Notions Who Grow Henry Henry James Present Coherence

I have some role models. In Brazil, they are mostly writers. A writer named Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto is my favorite. Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis is also a very important figure for me. Joaquim Barbosa

Me Important Brazil Favorite Some Writer Writers Named Also Mostly Very Role Role Models Models Figure Maria

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. Jodi Picoult

Success Writers Unwritten Get Literary Awards

Writers Quotes

No more writers quotes