#writers

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. ↗

— James A. Michener

#america #china #country #creative #creative expression

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner. ↗

— Phil Mickelson

#before #book #come #dinner #every

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#augustine #common #i #make #me

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#amount #happened #i #i write #involves

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#break #emotional #emotionally #fans #find

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#good #good ones #liars #natural #ones

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series. ↗

— Eric Morecambe

#green #hills #ideas #script #series

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#essence #i #poetry #something #taught