My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager… — Garrett Dennert Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
