#writers

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #i #learn #may #more

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#article #because #context #else #furious

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#into #like #teeth #writers

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! ↗

— Greg Bear

#contact #egalitarian #get #great #like

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#conversation #get #go #i #other

My book sales make 'real writers' possible. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#make #possible #real #sales #writers

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#film #film business #films #freedom #i

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot. ↗

— James Wolcott

#back #broken #celebrity #down #ecosystem