1525 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done. Robin Hobb

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I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background. Robin Thede

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I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops. Robin Williams

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I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. Robyn Davidson

Think Books About Having Unrealistic Writers Lot Translated Film

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. Roger McGough

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Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening. Roger Rosenblatt

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I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way. Romesh Gunesekera

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation. Romesh Gunesekera

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. Ron Fournier

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All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world. Ron White

Best World Joke Some Writers Comedian Friends

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was 'Great Expectations' and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn't supply. Ronald Frame

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Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice. Ronald Kessler

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I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians. Rosanne Cash

Musicians Daughters Writers Who Actor

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent. Roxane Gay

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I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page. Rumaan Alam

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Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both. Rumaan Alam

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For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer - tweeting, appearing, making the rounds - is required simply to attract enough attention to make a living. Rumaan Alam

Living Enough Writer Writers Simply Attention Performance Attract Make Making Endless Being Required Tweeting Many Appearing Rounds

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before. Rumaan Alam

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I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing. Rupert Sanders

Best Me Writing Reading Every Other Others Directors Writers Read None Were Being Screenplay Sent Choosing

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own. Rupert Sanders

Work People Met Own Every Other Projects Would Finding Tables My Own Writers Had Studio Head Knew Developing Crumbs Executive Make Lot Off Wanted Little Turn Producers Things Start Started

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed! Ruskin Bond

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