#writers

Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless. ↗

— Amy Bloom

#writers #writing #anger

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #integrity #literature #writers #art

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. ↗

— Ralph Keyes

#courage #creativity #fear #risks #writers

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#affected #almost #anglo #background #backgrounds

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#feel #four #i #i feel #john

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ↗

— Tony Snow

#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#business model #consequence #happy #hbo #how

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. ↗

— Aaron Sorkin

#good #great #other #outright #steal

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#beautiful #characters #fiction #fiction writers #i

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#even #know #look #slip #stuff