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I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
View quotes by Nikki Giovanni
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
View quotes by T S Eliot
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither (Two Sisters)
View quotes by Gore Vidal
On directing movies: anybody can direct. There are only 11 good writers.
View quotes by Mel Brooks
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
View quotes by Pliny The Elder
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
View quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
View quotes by Ezra Pound
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
View quotes by E M Forster
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
View quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
View quotes by Stan Barstow
I like bars with a mixed cast of characters, including writers and blue-collar types, and places that have a good vibe of semianonymity. There's a beach bar in Santa Monica called Chez Jay that I'm crazy about. Warren Beatty used to go there back in the seventies, and it's got a nice mix of people and a great jukebox
View quotes by Luke Wilson
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I'll write it myself.
View quotes by Joe Pasternak
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
View quotes by Alice Walker
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
View quotes by Edna Ferber
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
View quotes by Gore Vidal
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
View quotes by Wilson Mizner
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
View quotes by Larry King
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