I love Joy Williams, Lorrie Moore: such great short-story writers. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different. — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
“Ah the dreams of being a writer… They always smell of old research books and several cups of coffee.” — Laís Queiroz Copy Share Image
Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment;… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“When there is fear,he will have his pen clasp it high,whence for him,the wonders of night give light,where he lies behind his… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
“I wake up knowing that there is hope and patience. Every morning I wake up, I surrender myself to the Beautiful universe… — Jawed 's Copy Share Image
Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“And no matter how much I want to encourage the man or woman trying for the first time to write seriously, I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“The writers I most enjoy reading, even in gritty, down-to-earth genres, have a touch of the poet in them; they can create… — Charles Kowalski Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
“Don't say it is too hard or you can't find the words and please don't tell me there isn't enough time in… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image