Quotes 121 till 140 of 149.
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.
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We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
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We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
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When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
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With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
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Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'
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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
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Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
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