Writers Quotes
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Write Quotes
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When you take stuff from one writer it`s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it`s research.
Wilson Mizner
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were ever...
Lucy Parsons
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Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer
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Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo
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Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.
Don DeLillo
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We`re dreamers, you see, but we`re also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
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But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There`s a song that says, "the time ain`t long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.
Langston Hughes
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you take stuff from one writer it`s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it`s research.
Wilson Mizner
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I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.
Diablo Cody
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To be fair, I must give credit where credit is due. Although Kilmer is clearly no Michael Keaton - except for a few corny lines, which are mainly the writers` fault, and a slight lacking when it comes to the portrayal of a dark side - he did a much better...
Kevin Conroy
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After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything`s still here. I`m OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge and, when filmmakers or writers can take them t...
Steven Spielberg
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When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I`ve been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible! It`s well known that actors are lousy writers.
Richard E. Grant
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What I take from writers I like is their economy -- the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words -- tha...
Mos Def
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[when asked if he wished he had a different profession] Oh, all writers wish that. That`s why we become writers. We want to do something active but we can`t. Paul Johnson, in his "History of the 20th Century", says all the great crimes are committed by in...
David Mamet
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[when asked if he wished he had a different profession] Oh, all writers wish that. That`s why we become writers. We want to do something active but we can`t. Paul Johnson, in his "History of the 20th Century", says all the great crimes are committed by in...
David Mamet
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I don`t think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic ...
Stanley Kubrick
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I know writers who claim not to read their notices, or not to be hurt by the bad ones if they do, and I actually believe two of these individuals. I`m one of the other kind - I obsess over the possibility of bad reviews and brood over them when they come....
Stephen King
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When we are in pre-production, this is the best job in the world. Working 10 to 7, sitting around and brainstorming with the other writers, making things funnier and writing and rewriting scenes - that`s as fun as it gets. Adding acting on top of all that...
Paul Lieberstein
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All the great writers root their characters in true human behavior.
Ben Kingsley
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I`m always puzzled by this talk about star...image. I think there`s people who are writers or barbers or mechanics or race car drivers that have certain recognizable personalities, and I don`t think just because they happen to be on the screen that it mak...
Paul Newman
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But I can also publish books by interesting painters and writers and I can afford to do so because my own books sell and there`s a public that`s interested in that. And the public have gone to see exhibitions I`ve had - more than they would have.
Viggo Mortensen
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You can live with me in this house I`ve built out of writers blocks.
Pete Wentz
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The writers spent a lot of time getting to know us, so our characters are based on what we`re like in real life. [The Suite Life of Zack and Cody`s writers]
Dylan Sprouse
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The writers spent a lot of time getting to know us, so our characters are based on what we`re like in real life. [The Suite Life of Zack and Cody`s writers]
Dylan Sprouse
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[October 2006] [William Monahan] is maybe one of the two best writers I have ever worked with and I am developing something with him now that will take us back to Muslim countries next year. It`s called "Tripoli", is set in 1805 and is about the bad behav...
Ridley Scott
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What`s so special about all those amazing British children`s writers, those who gave us Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe and Pooh Bear and Peter Pan and Peter Rabbit and the rest, was that they didn`t set out to seduce. The great children`s writers...
Luc Besson
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What`s so special about all those amazing British children`s writers, those who gave us Alice in Wonderland and Robinson Crusoe and Pooh Bear and Peter Pan and Peter Rabbit and the rest, was that they didn`t set out to seduce. The great children`s writers...
Luc Besson
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Teen magazines keep writing that my eyes `twinkle` when I talk. Look, I`m a guy. I don`t twinkle, you know! You can say that my eyes `sparkle` maybe, but not `twinkle` alright? Got that teen magazine writers?!
Jonathan Brandis
