Quotes About Talented Writers

#1. One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

Vince Flynn

#2. No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.

Richard Castle

#3. You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show! ... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

Charlotte Rae

#4. Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#5. Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

Juanes

#6. I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Brian K. Vaughan

#7. There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Gillian Flynn

#8. I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

Oscar Hijuelos

#9. I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

Chris Crutcher

#10. I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

Sissy Spacek

#11. I quickly realized that I enjoyed editing more than writing. I felt more suited to it and it fit my nurturing personality. I had lots of ideas and a strong sense of structure, and I enjoyed working with talented writers, relishing the give-and-take in making their work better.

Lynn Povich

#12. There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

Jonathan Ames

#13. It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.

Jonathan Raban

#14. I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Steven Wright

#15. Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

David Karp

#16. Will Mars be always in your windy tongue and in your flying feet?

Virgil

#17. There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

Sandra Cisneros

#18. College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Rick Perlstein

#19. There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Brit Marling

#20. We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Christopher Bollen

#21. What an actor my demon was.

Gwen Hayes

#22. My name is Magnus Chase. I'm sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.

Rick Riordan

#23. There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

Elizabeth McCracken

#24. Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

Joe Pesci

#25. I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

Alicia Keys

#26. You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.

Larry McMurtry

#27. I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

Robin Williams

#28. I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

Mindy Kaling

#29. When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Eckhart Tolle

#30. I'm your son's partner who let him go by himself into the building that blew up, nice to meet you, has he told you he likes cock? Ty

Madeleine Urban

#31. As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women - simply because of a marketing decision. Am I truly less talented, less audacious, less erudite, less brave than my more quote-unquote literary colleagues?

Jillian Medoff

#32. As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

John Carpenter

#33. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.

George Washington

#34. Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented they were ... Any aspiring journalist who was interviewed for a job was told, If you want to be a writer, go somewhere else
women don't write at Newsweek.

Lynn Povich

#35. I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's deeply rewarding and not a little humbling to be honored by such a talented tribe of writers.

Sarah MacLean

#36. I retired from everything except work.

Lee Friedlander

#37. Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

Colin Wilson

#38. They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams.

Haruki Murakami

#39. Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Isaac Watts

#40. It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction. Because then I can say, Well, I may not be talented, but at least I'm not DEAD.

Tad Williams

#41. I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

Jessie Snow