#writers

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

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up. ↗

— Denis Norden

#added #amount #certain #comedians #comedy

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#live #mind #really #soul #writers

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#enough #everywhere #go #i #i think

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. ↗

— Anita Diament

#deeply #even #getting #give #i

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#artist #artists #audience #drag #easy

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#characters #great #human #human behaviour #root

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#affected #almost #anglo #background #backgrounds

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish. ↗

— Shakira

#challenge #english #i #i am #major