Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will be great. Then you write 12 things, of which four of them will be great. Then you writ...
All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of ...
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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.
I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to conv...
If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position hire the best writer. it doesn't matter if the person is marketer, salesperson, designer, programmer, or whatever, their writing skills will pay off. That's because being a good writer...
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, and their resp...
