#writer

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#guts #his #other #out #overcoat

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

#did #done #dream #film #friend

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#clear #efficient #good #keep #language

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#animator #disney #draw #good #good writer

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#conference #filming #giving #going #had

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist. ↗

— Kristin Kreuk

#actress #biologist #environmentalist #everything #i

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#everything #eye #highly #looking #spectator

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#ago #any #budget #camera #chance

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#easier #find #i #i think #inspiration

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.' ↗

— David Sedaris

#calling #felt #i #like #myself