#writers

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#going #just #much #oppression #sit

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#design #far #good #great #lighting

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#greatest #greatest thing #had #modern #stories

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#begins #duty #feelings #i #i love

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. ↗

— James Payn

#allowances #am #apt #aware #certain

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. ↗

— Anne Perry

#been #conventions #deal #excellent #extraordinarily

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#aware #existence #greatest #greatest writers #mystery