#writers

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#ghost #i #mail #message #personally

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#writers-on-writing

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#writers-on-writing

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. ↗

— Danny Glover

#black #called #campus #cleaver #communications

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#avid #chose #country #earn #first

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things. ↗

— Matt Groening

#conan #like #lot #moved #moved on

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. ↗

— Harry Harrison

#bad #comic #good #most #very

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#also #aspiring #garlic #give #helps

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. ↗