I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I prefer a pen in my hand to a cigarette when I drink. It generally works out better for everybody. -D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you… — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The children of great authors do not, as a rule, become writers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
