#writers

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit. ↗

— Ken Follett

#badly #credit #doing #gets #just

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers. ↗

— Ken Follett

#just #movies #thriller #writers

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#amazed #beginning #bland #days #everything

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#companies #create #i #material #more

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#dilemma #endeavors #felt #fiction #fiction writers

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bad #better #book #deliver #earth

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. ↗

— Burt Ward

#best #business #children #comedy #funny

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#creative process #much #process #undervalued #very

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. ↗

— James Welch

#i #i think #insulting #labels #people