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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost

Music, Alone, May

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

Nothing, Another, Imitation

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein

Food, Science, Him

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho

Today, writers want to impress other writers.
Paulo Coelho

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley

Write, Themselves, Influence

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor

Good, Best, Teacher

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot

Failed, Editors

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

Good, Give, Same

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
Andy Rooney

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman

Time, Bored, Between

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch

Speak, Windows, Dictate

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov

Science, May, Problems

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Paul Kane

Patience, End, Win

As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
Harvey Fierstein

Writing, Thought, Acting

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke

Great, War, Alive

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. Forster

Creative, Greater, Causes

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

Good, Made, Try

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Down, Old

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Gore Vidal

Time, Made, Cannot

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Gore Vidal

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal

Others, Drink, Audiences

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
W. Somerset Maugham

Young, Trouble, Sixties

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

Good, Art, Live

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal

Style, Forty, Nobility

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Ellen DeGeneres

Women, Hard, Trying

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel

Life, Around, Artist

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
Steve Martin

Funny, Thought, Comedy

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
Mason Cooley

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