#writers

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also. ↗

— John Phillips

#case #holds #sing #songwriters #traditionally

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#clones #commitment #empirical #equality #many

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#aware #existence #greatest #greatest writers #mystery

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#different #funnier #good #good reason #i

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#comedians #pencils #pens #really #riff

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. ↗

— David Remnick

#another #book #books #had #half