#writers

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#advice #give #had #i #listen

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#acoustic guitar #bass #dorsey #fabulous #guitar

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before. ↗

— Matt Groening

#before #beginning #characters #comments #done

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#ethnicity #how #open #outside #sex

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. ↗

— Greg Egan

#been #directions #drags #fashionable #flying

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#better #could #critical #done #exception

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#bully #comedy #comic #every #feedback

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. ↗

— Paul Kane

#achieved #anymore #come #end #find

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists. ↗

— Paul Kane

#describe #fix #formulas #hopefully #i

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. ↗

— Paul Kane

#computer #desk #get #into #isolated