Thelma Ritter Quotes

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

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

I see myself as a story teller.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.

I'm clearly not a writer, but I'm always a fan of them.

I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.

I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances!

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

I have to live up to the love I am receiving.

That love motivates you to cooperate, respect, appreciate, cherish, and admire that person.

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.