#writer

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#find #had #i #learn #myself

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#attacks #being #both #diminish #director

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#major #prison #who #writers #writing

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

#clearly #confess #feel #i #i feel

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#artists #basic #because #fact #gotta

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. ↗

— Anna Freud

#continually #emphasizes #everything #fixed #how

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#first #had #hate #helluva #i

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. ↗

— Robert Frost

#circles #forward #himself #how #indicates

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. ↗

— Robert Frost

#surprise #tears #writer

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer. ↗

— David Frum

#someone #thrilling #ultimately #wants #who