#writers

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#contempt #i #i wonder #motivation #ought

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ask #critics #does #dog #dogs

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. ↗

— Tina Fey

#audience #comedy #down #dress #her

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. ↗

— John Cheever

#excellent #good #greater #hundred #latitude

Writers always know whether you like them or not. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#know #like #them #whether #writers

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#enormous #feel #i #i feel #must

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#books #british #british museum #might #monkeys

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#borrow #company #enough #get #had

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#came #creators #definitely #devices #imagination

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. ↗

— Thomas Berger

#why #write #writers