#writer

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters. ↗

— David Crane

#complimentary #designers #enjoyed #game #games

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#aspire #bar #better #easier #gets

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #being #being honest #confidence #even

I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#books #changes #control #copyright #editorial

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#completely #different #different people #different place #drained

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#absolute freedom #become #compensation #fool #freedom

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#biggest #call #compelling #economic issues #genre

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. ↗

— Stephen King

#always #because #been #comfort #doing

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#being #both #contribute #deprived #either