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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet.
It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
- Richard Price

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go.
But within those confines is where creativity lies.
- Richard Price

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes,
I'm ready to start writing.
Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
- Richard Price

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who
my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into,
and I'll write myself out of their jam.
- Richard Price

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does.
You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint.
You're a writer because this is what you do.
- Richard Price

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily
tied into excellence or talent;
an artist is somebody who,
if you took away their freedom to make art,
would lose their mind.
- Richard Price

I write because I can't imagine not writing.
- Richard Price

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The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a
fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments,
not uniquely in coal environments.
- Richard Price

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires
more than a paragraph of talking,
because I'm just an amateur.
The movie is a whole different reality.
- Richard Price

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere.
I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
- Richard Price

I started thinking about my relationship with my students;
I'm this guy who comes in from book -
and movie -
land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
- Richard Price

I'd love to be a saxophonist.
I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music.
I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
- Richard Price

I can never read this book, just like I can never see
a movie that I wrote a screenplay for.
I can read it and see it physically,
but I can't accurately judge it.
I'm too close to it.
If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
- Richard Price

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment,
you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it.
My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center.
It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged.
- Richard Price

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism;
but when you take it from many writers,
it's research.
- Wilson Mizner

Writers write.
Dreamers talk about it.
- Jerry B. Jenkins

I know many writers who first dictate passages,
then polish what they have dictated.
I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
- Edward Koch

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
- Antonia Fraser

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
- Ann Rule

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
- Jewel Kilcher

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what
for? All you do is change the words.
- Samuel Goldwyn

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers
who take themselves seriously -
and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.
- Jonathan Franzen

Granted, the writers, directors, producers,
and that community make a great deal of money.
But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other
things for the living they make.
- Norman Lear

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice,
but everyone has a book in them.
Yes, that old cliche.
- Tanith Lee

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process,
nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
- Thomas Perry

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time.
We could hardly get through it.
- Buddy Rice

I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming,
fascinating, moving, all of that.
I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.
- Patti Davis

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for
readers to become more indolent;
whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining
knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
- Oliver Goldsmith

There's something with the physical size of America...
American writers can write about America and it can
still feel like a foreign country.
- Mark Haddon

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take
Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.
- Hunter Tylo

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

I haven't stuck to any formula.
Most great writers stick to the same style,
but I wanted to be more various.
- Irwin Shaw

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity,
promotion, and the publishing industry;
but alas,
not always.
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

I get so used to working with writers that my prime
occupation is development.
- Ridley Scott

Writers write to influence their readers,
their preachers, their auditors, but always,
at bottom, to be more themselves.
- Aldous Huxley

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers
will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing,
but writing is what I was meant to do.
- Leon Uris

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

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
A good writer turns fact into truth;
a bad writer will,
more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
- Edward Albee

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself
to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
- Robert Frost

I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen
their original voice as writers rather than imposing
my own subjective tastes,
judgements or sensibility on the project.
- Douglas Wood

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects.
Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family,
that is often a place to start.
- Robert Morgan

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition
of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children,
and many writers.
- Joan Didion

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them
that a whole world is out there,
not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
- Anne McCaffrey

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien,
moved on to other things.
- Matt Groening

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time,
and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
- Gore Vidal

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
- Mel Brooks

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers,
artists, and musicians there are in town.
- Steven Curtis Chapman

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
- Fulton J. Sheen

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
- Daphne du Maurier

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally.
We have no writers who are recognized,
respected and loved outside the Arab world.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

But the French writers always had more originality
and independence than others,
and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion,
long since ceased to exist for them.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self,
to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar,
is the test of their power.
- Toni Morrison

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous.
I'll go a step further.
You must be bisexual.
- Rita Mae Brown

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
- George Murray

There are plenty of clever young writers.
But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
- J. B. Priestley

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here
and now that Anglo and European do apply.
Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds,
so does much of the fiction.
- Stanley Schmidt

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession
that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing,
we relax by writing another.
- Dan Simmons

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
- Eudora Welty

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying,
Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes;
I am your guide.
- Larry King

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
- Emile M. Cioran

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune.
The writers are in charge.
The writers decide what the material is.
- Eric Idle

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

Writers are not meant for action.
- Manuel Puig

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water;
and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism
in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them,
and revert to realism.
- Marguerite Young

I think writers are very anxious.
- Helen Garner

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.
- Eric Brown

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers;
when you get to the point where they take you to lunch,
let the editor suggest where to go.
- Jerry Pournelle

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