#writers

It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. ↗

— George Murray

#bit #crapshoot #now #out #right

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#burns #heroes #i #important #other

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#design #far #good #great #lighting

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#greatest #greatest thing #had #modern #stories

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. ↗

— James Payn

#allowances #am #apt #aware #certain

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also. ↗

— John Phillips

#case #holds #sing #songwriters #traditionally

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#clones #commitment #empirical #equality #many

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#benefits #crowns #enjoy #entitled #even

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i