#writers

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make. ↗

— Norman Lear

#community #deal #directors #granted #great

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#dexter #dreaming #episodes #everyone #five

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#because #courage #i #i think #just

Good writers are of necessity rare. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#necessity #rare #writers

I do enjoy working with writers. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#i #i do #working #writers

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#between #directors #discovered #down #exactly

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free. ↗

— David Lloyd

#artists #create #escaping #few #free

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

Our job, as writers is to do our jobs. ↗

— David Mamet

#jobs #our #writers

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work. ↗

— Kent McCord

#greatest #greatest writers #industry #our #some