#writers

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#culture #dreams #else #feel #i

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#good-books #truth #writers #bad

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#lot #point #songwriters #steal #terms

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. ↗

— Athanasius

#approach #cleanse #copying #deeds #first

Writers speak stench. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#stench #writers

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem. ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#days #i #problem #spend #writers

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#behind #coming #i #like #never

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are. ↗