Writers Quotes

Writers need each other.

— Sara Sheridan

“Writers are readers, too.”

— Bea Cannon

Writers are not meant for action.

— Manuel Puig

“What do writers look like?”

— Graham Spaid

I work until beer oclock.

— Stephen King

“Wonders encircled the world.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

You must do what you say you do.

— Rudolfo Anaya Poet & Writer

“I think. I write. I am.”

— Himmilicious

“Three words for a writer: Make me care.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Isn’t that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?”

— Adam Langer

“A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...”

— CJ Heck

“Don't be afraid of what you're creating.”

— Christy Hall

“I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.”

— Rayne Hall

Writers have always been very underrated.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

— Doris Lessing

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.”

— Buffy Andrews

“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.”

— Neeraj Singhvi

“A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.”

— Leslie Austin

Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes.

— Lionel Shriver

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

— Irwin Shaw

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

— Anonymous

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm…

— Jonathan Dee

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by…

— Sharon Olds

“Her thoughts became mysteriously tightened and strung up as if a piano tuner had put his key in her back and stretched…

— Virginia Woolf

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.…

— Doris Lessing

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where…

— George Packer

“Which story do you want to hear my child?"he picked him up and made him sit on his lap. "Tell us the…

— Chitralekha Paul

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he…

— Gustave Flaubert

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are…

— Bryan Fuller

“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing…

— Julio Cortázar

For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really…

— James Mercer

“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager…

— Garrett Dennert

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe…

— Elie Wiesel

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more…

— Walter Kirn

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long…

— Michael Hirst

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment…

— Neil Gaiman

“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer…

— Shannon L. Alder