Quotes of: Writers Keyword

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scott Westerfeld

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

Cat Stevens

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Jose Saramago

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.

Corin Nemec

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Steven Pinker

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Jeff Daniels

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

Joseph Joubert

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Joyce Carol Oates

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.

Lytton Strachey

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

Michael Morpurgo

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.

Marianne Williamson

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.

William Butler Yeats

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Alberto Moravia

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

Earl Hamner, Jr.

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

Julianna Baggott

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

John Cheever

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Mary Archer

In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

Mandy Patinkin