#writers

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#brigade #citizens #city #comedians #entering

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#article #because #context #else #furious

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#into #like #teeth #writers

Writers speak stench. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#stench #writers

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. ↗

— Louise Brown

#commission #doing #other #plenty #publishers

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them ↗

— William H. Gass

#writing #beauty

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american film #american writers #directors #every #every time

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#aquatic #bizarre #creatures #fins #fish

Today, writers want to impress other writers. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#other #today #want #writers