Quotes of: Writers Keyword

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

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

David Liss

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

St. Vincent

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Salman Rushdie

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

Raymond Carver

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

Benicio Del Toro

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Hipolito (The Writer): We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.

Amélie

Barton: That son of a bitch! Don't get me wrong, he's a fine writer...

Barton Fink

How do you paint a writer's block? Just fill it with fifty shades of black.

Ana Claudia Antunes

Show me a writer that doesn't use their craft as a coping mechanism and I'll show you my unicorn.

Angelina Assanti

...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Anton Chekhov

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande