We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
Zadie Smith
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
Aaron Sorkin
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it... →
Wole Soyinka
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild... →
Penelope Spheeris
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal
If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.
Toby Stephens
Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.
Tom Stoppard
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.