#writers

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English. ↗

— David Mamet

#admire #asked #degree #down #english

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. ↗

— Steve Martin

#breakthrough #comedy #funny #i #really

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. ↗

— John Metcalf

#approach #become #committed #excellence #gathering

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#cheesecake #commissioned #company #get #had

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. ↗

— James A. Michener

#experience #great #imagination #like #limited

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#egos #fragile #most #writers

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#composers #good #keep #like #monotonous

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names. ↗

— Larry Niven

#me #names #new #problem #right

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. ↗

— John O'Hara

#greater #make #men #men and women #novels