Quotes 101 till 120 of 149.
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Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I like short films, too; I love doing readings, audio books, working with young filmmakers; anything that keeps you from getting blase about yourself or in a rut.
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That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989) -
There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
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