#writers

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #books #busyness #how #many

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#been #blessed #caliber #different #great

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#democracy #discussion #fits #how #improvisation

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#certain #cues #each #end #even

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. ↗

— John Updike

#bloom #dare #decay #disreputable #early

Writers will happen in the best of families. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#families #happen #will #writers

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. ↗

— John le Carre

#another #back #balance #bank #childhood

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#must #opening #our #readers #sentence

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#education