#writers

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#democracy #discussion #fits #how #improvisation

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#allows #bring #continuity #experience #first-person

Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. ↗

— Cameron Crowe

#age #bangs #being #dave #fallen

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#certain #cues #each #end #even

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#few #film #going #great #indie

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. ↗

— Mos Def

#economy #effective #ends #entire #i

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#hart #i #i think #jazz #knowledge

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 truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers. ↗

— Susie Orbach

#life