#writers

The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#admire #best #best way #learn #other

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#hart #i #i think #jazz #knowledge

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible. ↗

— William Devane

#always #been #change #complete #complete control

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

#author #beauty #cat #cats #grace

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#am #anything #because #dreadful #fiction

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#compose #composition #down #every #every time

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#amazed #beginning #bland #days #everything

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#even #funny #funny people #get #know

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. ↗

— Flora Tristan

#contrast #england #exists #intellectual #revolting