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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.