Quotes of: American-writers Keyword

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Chuck Jones

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

LeVar Burton

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

Flannery O'Connor

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

James Bernard Frost

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

Lana Del Rey

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

Theresa May

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

Erin Gruwell: Does anyone know Homer's the Odyssey? Andre: I know Homer the Simpson.

Freedom Writers

Charlotte Haze: He is a writer and he is not be disturbed! Lolita Haze: [makes the Nazi salute] Sieg heil!

Lolita

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Shia LaBeouf

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

Tucker Max

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.

Robert Morgan

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

Damian Lewis

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Ruth Ozeki

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

Stephen Daldry

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Ben Hecht

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

Mini Grey

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Rex Stout

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay