1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. Orson Scott Card

Sometimes Ought Admiration Writers Contempt Motivation Wonder

Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault. Pamela Sargent

Science Youth People Fans Some People Reading Become Later Favorite Some Adolescence Somewhat Mary Writers Picked Readers Science Fiction Passionate Historical Up Escape Than Childhood Fiction Choice Novels

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. Pankaj Mishra

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature. Pankaj Mishra

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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first. Pankaj Mishra

Great Trouble First White Living Late Tried Admired Exalted Russian Postwar Writers Had Most Foreign Came Were Male Cultural Very American Where Available Milieu American Writers Widely

It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process. Pardis Sabeti

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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. Pat Conroy

Travel Try Other Tribe Writers Effects Subtle Who

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character. Pat Conroy

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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. Patricia Clarkson

Writer Writers Because Maybe Just Thing

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers. Patricia MacLachlan

Great Respect Ability Writers Great Respect Children

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes. Patricia Richardson

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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace. Patrick Ness

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even the novels themselves, through the strange transmutations of time and shifting tastes and mores, exhibit changes as we look backward upon them, acquiring retroactive meanings and tonalities. Paul Di Filippo

Time Strange Shifting Changes Changing Backward Phrase Through Writers Instant Look Readers Exhibit Encounter End Begin Same Tastes Them Acquiring Themselves Meanings Moment Even Novel Novels

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting. Paul Engle

Class Vision First Took Meeting Absolute Writers Students Had Over Were Eight After Little Them Workshop Brilliantly

I feel like too many horror writers and filmmakers sort of just assume that the default is, 'The horror movie must be all atmosphere first and everything else second.' Paul G. Tremblay

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists. Paul Kane

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. Paul Kane

When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that's as fun as it gets. Paul Lieberstein

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