#writer

To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One must also have a lot of life experience, travel to exotic locations and live among the local people. Yet most importantly a writer needs the determination to keep at their writing regardless of what others might say or think about it ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#diversity #living-life-to-the-fullest #travel #writing #experience

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #down #fast #five #had

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#chest #days #format #get #goes

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#experience #his #large #life #mind

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#being #get #i #like #mean

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#good #many #more #out #than

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#enough #get #going #inspired #just

Writers are always selling somebody out. ↗

— Joan Didion

#out #selling #somebody #writers

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make