Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.
Matt Groening

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
Matt Groening

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.
Matt Groening

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Jack Herer

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Felix Adler

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
Eric Idle

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

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

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Stephen Ambrose

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.
Howie Mandel

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
Anne Rice

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
Anne Rice

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Anne Rice

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Emile M. Cioran

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barbara Walters

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

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice.
Chuck Klosterman

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
Chuck Klosterman

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
Emeril Lagasse