“ They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
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“ I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. ”
- Thomas Keneally- Copy
- 415
“ A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute. ”
- Terence Rattigan- Copy
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“ What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason… to write for me. ”
- Tim Roth- Copy
- 457
“ The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
- 3.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
- 698
“ Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
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“ Shakespeare was a dramatist of notewho lived by writing things to quote. ”
- H. C. Bunner- Copy
- 1.7K
“ In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. ”
- Geoffrey Cottrell- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ”
- Irvin S. Cobb- Copy
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“ All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. ”
- Laura Linney- Copy
- 2.9K
“ He's a ruthless dictator but he also thinks he's a playwright. Saddam wrote a play called 'Zabiba and the King' … attendance has dropped off since Nathan Lane has left the show. ”
- David Letterman- Copy
- 771
“ I know a playwright with a forty-thousand-dollar house in Beverly and he's miserable. ”
- John Garfield- Copy
- 2.8K
“ This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades. ”
- Richard Eder- Copy
- 204
“ A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 1.6K
“ By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us. ”
- Eric Brown- Copy
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