“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I thought, when I came to Nashville, I was going to hook up with some of the top country writers in town… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
“When you smile, it’s more than the sunshine. I can see all of the colours of the rainbow.” — Jawedquotes Copy Share Image
I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society.… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
Not being a natural songwriter... for me the appreciation of a great song and the writers came early on, growing up in… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. 'Theme for a novel: The… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink,… — Jo Baker Copy Share Image
With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable. — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
