Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions” — Vianka Van Bokkem Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
“People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.” — Bruce Van Horn Copy Share Image
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let… — Sarra Cannon Copy Share Image
“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew… — Retta Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“And it’s great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth 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
“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
“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
'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
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I like to work with co-writers because I think it's really fun to bounce ideas off each other. — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
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