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Writer Quotes
"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."
"I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer."
"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."
"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."
"TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer."
"I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references."
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
"There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do."
"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."
"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."
"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
"Good writers are of necessity rare."
"Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot."
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