Writers Quotes

I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers. Abi Morgan
Brought Writers Like Know Up Actor
The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I get muses in terms of actors or writers who inspire me, so I understand the concept. Abi Morgan
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills. Abraham Verghese
Good Day You Writing Good Day Job Pressure Advice Writers Takes Day Job Off Get Pays Bills
Writers are so important. Adam Driver
Important Writers
Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones. Adam Mansbach
People Mad Hop Writers Weird Most Geniuses Hip Hip-Hop Scientists Were Interesting Interesting People
For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way. Adam Mansbach
Me Culture Way Secretive Definition Eccentric Writers Always Hip-Hop Were Any Fascinating
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive. Adam Ross
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Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location. Adrian McKinty
Sometimes Earth Location Ancient Parallel Temporal Writers Geographic Offered Quite Often Explanation Fantasy Novels Set
Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters. Adrian McKinty
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Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it. Aimee Bender
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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. Alain de Botton
Happy Insist Writers Also Terrible Am Interesting Hegel Kant Thinkers
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing. Alan Ball
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. Alan Cumming
Knowledge You Television Scene Writers Nobody Know Knows Always How Go End Going Where Happen Story Theater Certain Even Each Film Play Thing
The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. Alan Dean Foster
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. Alan Furst
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My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me. Alan Furst
Me Sometimes Think Books Write Writers True Read Because Want Them Theory
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. Alan Lightman
Work Family Travel Science Draw All Writers Writers Fertile Fiction Roots Ground
I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop. Alan Menken
Time Kid Ways Member Out Composer Networking Writers Stems Since Always Where Influences Communicating Really Many Workshop
My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories. Alan Moore
Generation Book Problem Fans Example Would Brought Only Fired Writers Written For Example Comic Comic Book Were Pro Stories Turn Paid Who Professional
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel. Alan Rickman
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I don't know why, but American sci-fi writers seem to focus on the near-future, which has given us Brits a clear run at the most fascinating. Alastair Reynolds
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When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe. Alastair Reynolds
Writing Mind Few Gene Writers Main Had House Were Role Role Models Models Being
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' Albert Finney
Life Sit Down Unlike Way Say Marvellous Blank Blank Canvas Writers Had How Very Front Gregarious Where Canvas Painters Lucky Start
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. Alberto Moravia
Good Problem Monotonous Composers Born Perfect Writers Like Understand Were Trying Keep
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan
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I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not. Alec Baldwin
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