#writers

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#american #appreciated #beatles #bob #bob dylan

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ↗

— Rita Dove

#be real #because #could #i #knew

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#days #discussing #i #i have learned #learned

All writers are vampires. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#writers

I think writers are very anxious. ↗

— Helen Garner

#i #i think #think #very #writers

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves. ↗

— Helen Garner

#almost #calm #happened #life #lot

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#directors #feel #gel #grateful #group

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#both #ears #english #few #matters

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. ↗

— David Mamet

#jobs #our #writers

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean. ↗

— Norton Juster

#had #i #i think #just #know