Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

Mickey Spillane

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936)

Miguel de Unamuno

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

Matthew Weiner

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Howard Barker

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Karl Marx

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Samuel Goldwyn

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

William Devane

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?'

Blair Brown

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me.

Bryan Cranston

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

Carlton Cuse

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

David Cassidy

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

Dolly Parton

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

Irwin Winkler

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

James D. Watson

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Karin Fossum

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

Theodore Sturgeon

Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal that says 'laureate' to continue that.

Anthony Browne

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

Conor Maynard

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

Paul Haggis

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

Zooey Deschanel