You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.” — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
Canada has always been a great place for literature. It's strong and growing stronger, and there will always be reading, and there… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting… — Craig Bierko Copy Share Image
As far as personal philosophies go, I think you should know your ending. I know that's radically different from a lot of… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain. We were… — Bob Mayer Copy Share Image
“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight…what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.” — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
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