Writers Strike Quotes

#1. The writers' strike a couple years ago was a bonanza for reality TV shows new and old.

Carole Nelson Douglas

#2. How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

Christopher Meloni

#3. I got a degree in broadcast journalism at Northwestern but was running a sketch-comedy group and then went to Second City. When the writers' strike happened in 2007-2008, I went to work at E! because I had that background.

Robin Thede

#4. During the writers' strike in 2007, we put on our own SNL episode there with old sketches. Michael Cera hosted, our musical guest was Yo La Tengo, and we gave Lorne a birthday cake as he sat in the audience.

Amy Poehler

#5. Around 2008 when the writers' strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, and I thought, 'I'm going to try my hand at horror because I always loved it as a kid.'

Drew Daywalt

#6. I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.

Ned Beatty

#7. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.

A.K. Kuykendall

#8. Great writers wield their words like a weapon; a double-edged sword to strike their readers with truth where they least expect it. -Matthew D. Forgenti

Matthew D. Forgenti

#9. Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

Steven Lake

#10. The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Lennox Lewis

#11. And I'll gaze across the chasm to the other side of the island, where I can still sometimes catch sight of a curly-haired urchin running joyously through the tall purple grass, her faithful dog at her heels.

Michelle Cooper

#12. The only way to get a good crew is to marry one.

Eric Hiscock

#13. The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Edward Gibbon

#14. Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.

Edmund White

#15. Normally writers do not talk much,because they are saving their conversations for the readers of their book-
those invisible listeners with whom we wish to strike a sympathetic chord.

Ruskin Bond

#16. I'm going because my life was crap until I met you. I'm going because I don't want to be here when you're not, still living with my mum and nothing being any different. I wouldn't even be thinking about going if it hadn't been for you.

Jenny Downham

#17. Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

Robert Galbraith