1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

Many children's writers don't have children of their own. Mark Haddon

Own Writers Children Many

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. Mark Helprin

Work Garden Wealth Will Example Party Profit Benefit Various Writers Freeing For Example Executives Continue Domain Families Than American Literary Transfer Literary Work While Public Public Domain Less Who Businesses Katherine Descendants American Writers

What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating. Mark Kurlansky

Food Creative People Focus Reflect Restaurants Eat Eating Writers Most Well Documented Expensive Dishes Little Prefer Whose Fashionable

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings. Marlon James

Complicated Feelings Young Find Writers Particularly Readers Want Young Writers

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life. Marlon James

Life Living Writer Writers Mission Missions Also False Very Suspicious

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century. Martin Amis

Good Fashion Great Me World Path First Half Think Took Response Good Ones Horrors Fact Writers Clearer Gloom Becoming False Celebrated In Fact Century Certain Twentieth Twentieth Century

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more. Martin Rees

Life Science Space Insects Other Earth Restrict More Writers Attention Like Ideas Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Robots Dense Intelligent Jupiter Maybe Fiction Fiction Writers Planets Search Floating Creatures

Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess. Mary Daly

Future Time Women Space Rule Everywhere Outer Outer Space Allegedly More Writers Beyond Most Been Role Get Space And Time Patriarchy Which Far Create Even Appears Imaginative

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness. Mary Gaitskill

Together Three Would Would-Be Writers Self-Consciousness Nightmare

I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad. Mary Gordon

Sad People Sadness Will Think Coldness Rather Absolutely Writers Absolutely Not Particularly Chic Than Ironic Anything Acknowledge Among

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers. Mary Gordon

I used to be a model and a medical test subject, though never at the same time. And since we didn't have much money when I was a kid, I know how to fish and hunt for my supper. And I used to win awards in speech in high school, which comes in handy when I speak to 200 people at a writers' conference. MaryJanice Davidson

Time People Speak Money Win School Kid Though Hunt High High School Supper Writers Never Since Know How Test Fish Subject Model Conference Same Handy Same Time Which Much Used Awards Medical Speech

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. Mary Karr

You Yourself Style Young Out Writers Vein Mistakenly Escape Blot Trying Often Want Young Writers Certain Choose Who Based Actually

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. Mary Karr

Success Money More Writers Idea Deal Affected Huge

As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly. Mary Pilon

Business People Symphony Keys Typewriter Say Solo Weapon Writers Were Quickly Them Century Choice Professional Things Elite Need

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern. Mary Steenburgen

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. Mary Wortley Montagu

I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers take risks on and never get into a staid process with. Matt Bomer

Home Character Risks White Consider Collar Take Writers Never Very Get Process Staid White-Collar Home Base Multifaceted Lucky Base Play

Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn to directing. Writers, too. I knew how to direct actors because I've been there and I know what I like. Matt Dillon

Best Myself Me You Better Made Think Too Definitely Record Direct Directing Better Actor Writers Knew Like Know Track Track Record Because How Been Turn Actor

Warrior Writer workshops have sprung up across the country, and of the ones I've attended and participated in, most contain at least one or two star writers. Matt Gallagher

Country Warrior At Least One One Or Two Writer Writers Attended Contain Most Least Sprung Up Across Workshops Star Two

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before. Matt Groening

History Sometimes Before Beginning Characters About Writers Remind Since Know Make Very Comments Done The History Of Tone

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things. Matt Groening

Other Our Writers Conan Like Lot Moved Moved On Things

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television. Matt Groening

Seen Television Only Writers Also Repeat Led Done Stories Anything Fantastic Scully Mike Creating Original

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