#writers

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

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#century #made #need #reason #terrifying

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#failed #most #some #writers

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#most #out #talented #writers

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

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ↗

— Voltaire

#borrowed #imitation #judicious #most #nothing

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#always #american #american tradition #apolitical #comes

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bad #better #book #deliver #earth

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#call #copy #early #editor #few