Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director.… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
“Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike… — Steven Lake Copy Share Image
I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I'm so thrilled to have won the RITA. The award is particularly special because it is given by other romance authors. It's… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have… — Glenn Ficarra Copy Share Image
I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
“Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking,… — Suzanne Berne Copy Share Image
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older,… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
