Quotes 21 till 40 of 149.
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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
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Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
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Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
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Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.
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Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
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Bill Finger was a contributing force on Batman right from the beginning. He wrote most of the great stories and was influential in setting the style and genre other writers would emulate... I made Batman a superhero-vigilante when I first created him. Bill turned him into a scientific detective.
Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989) -
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.'
For the loser now will be later to winThe Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers - same thing exactly.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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