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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

Country people give me more than writers, and country places than towns.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.