Quotes tagged ‘writer’

“Comedian, actor, writer and entrepreneur Kevin Hart is the winner of the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Considered the highest honor in funny business, previous recipients have included Tina Fey, Bob Newhart, David Letterman and Jon Stewart.”

— Elizabeth Blair, npr.org

“No matter what type of book you choose to write, you need to read widely in that genre.”

— Collective World, collectiveworld.substack.com

“It's like, you get to a certain age and you stop being a writer who waits tables and you become a waiter with a hobby.”

— Steven Levenson, Jon, Andrew Garfield, imdb.com

“Whoever wrote Moxie is a badass.”

— Tamara Chestna, Dylan Meyer, Amaya, Anjelika Washington, imdb.com

“Most recently, she became the first female LGBTQ writer to win the 2020 Writers Guild Award for Episodic Comedy.”

— Kerensa Cadenas, The Cut, thecut.com

“Maintaining an intuitive journalistic distance (as she put it in 1970, “I always have an opinion about the orgy; I’m just not down on the floor with the rest of the bodies”), Ephron was peerless at splitting things open and revealing the absurd.”

— Marley Marius, Vogue, vogue.com

“I have one purpose on this earth and that is to become a great writer.”

— Alena Smith, Emily Dickinson, Hailee Steinfeld, imdb.com

“Over the past 20 years, she’s reported from the front lines of progressive movements from Occupy Wall Street and beyond, and is known for her unflinching critique of capitalism and globalization.”

— Bridget Read, The Cut, thecut.com

“I'm not wearing a bra and I'm a real fucking writer!”

— Lindy West, Aidy Bryant, Annie, Aidy Bryant, imdb.com

“I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.”

— Michael Tolkin, Griffin Mill, Tim Robbins, imdb.com

“he opened me up like a book & poured the poetry back into me. - my personal pen & paper.”

— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com

“i don’t need you to write my story. i write every day & you couldn’t even translate the fucking punctuation. -she.”

— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com

“Jane: Maybe I'm not cut out to be a writer. Rafael: That is just your doubts and fears talking. You have to keep writing, you are a writer. Narrator: Yes, my friends, this was the third time. Rafael: Do you need me to say it? Be brave. Narrator: And friends, he knew then and there that he had to be…”

— Deirdre Shaw, Valentina Garza, Rafael Solano, Justin Baldoni, imdb.com

“I write poems, I don't know how to be 'a poet.'”

— Michael Hirst, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Jamie Thomas King, imdb.com

“I told him. I told that lousy writer that that scene was sick. I didn't even enjoy reading it. No. He insisted we keep it in. Damn writers.”

— Donald P. Bellisario, J. J. Stein, Ron Masak, imdb.com

“Oh, I tell a great story and I'm a liar, but Harry Potter does it and he's your favorite writer.”

— Seth MacFarlane, Erik Durbin, Mike Barker, Stan Smith (voice), Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“So now I was a published writer, but my life had become boring, as boring as a bad metaphor. Or simile. Whatever, I'm not a writer.”

— Chris McKenna, Steve Smith (voice), Scott Grimes, imdb.com

“I am not a disability writer. I’m a writer, period. I write about disability sure, but also, pop culture and music and grief and joy and whatever I feel like.”

— Keah Brown, twitter.com

“Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written. I don't even really write the jokes, they just come into my head, and a joke can't come into my head on stage, because I'm too busy.”

— Steven Wright, avclub.com

“Don’t worry about pleasing others. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Be the writer you wanted to read but never found. Develop a strong core that you can return to again and again, something that isn’t predicated on external validation.”

— Jenny Zhang, twitter.com