Writers Quotes · Page 18

“A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.”

— K.D. Green

“That's okay," I said. "We're writers. We make things up.”

— John Irving

I can appreciate other writers' works.

— Clive Cussler

I love my music. It gets written by some very great writers.

— Joey Heatherton

Writers begin with a grain of sand, and then create a beach.

— Robert Black

“He carried a pencil that put a camera to shame.”

— E.B. White

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writers, we can't please everyone, nor should we try.”

— R.E. Fisher

“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.”

— Heidi Pitlor

Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul…

— Hozier

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was…

— Markus Zusak

The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.

— Gulzar

“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.”

— Zachary Koukol

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to…

— John Irving

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with…

— Courtney A. Kemp

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are…

— John Frankenheimer

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very…

— Peter Turchi

“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there…

— Lauren Carr

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to…

— Dick Cavett

Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate…

— Henry Rollins

There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like…

— Margaret Drabble

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any…

— Mac Barnett

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's…

— Stevie Nicks

“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales…

— Sara Sheridan

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,…

— Jennifer Egan

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their…

— Francine Prose

There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and…

— Rhea Perlman

Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I…

— Needa Muy

As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people…

— Jason Katims

“[Writers] should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.”

— E.B. White

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.

— James Wolcott

Young writers take themselves very seriously in college.

— Kyle Kinane

“God's justice will always be found at the end of a pen.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.”

— Carroll Bryant

“Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...”

— Nanette L. Avery

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

— Rebecca Serle