Writers Quotes · Page 31

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

“Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.”

— David Chuka

“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.”

— Cuthbert Soup

“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.”

— Terry Lander

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

— Nicholson Baker

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they…

— Orhan Pamuk

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want…

— Anthony Geary

I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them,…

— Tom Stoppard

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is…

— Fay Weldon

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just…

— Quentin Blake

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or…

— John Banville

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I…

— Salman Rushdie

“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone…

— Christian Bobin

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give…

— Susan Cheever

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that…

— Harvey Pekar

“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of…

— Virginia Woolf

“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will…

— Chitralekha Paul

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met…

— Charles Kelley

“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

Over the years, I think, people - actors, writers, whatever - lose their frame of reference. Their frame of reference is based…

— Michael Keaton

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

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers…

— Marian Keyes

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna

“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.”

— Jamie L. Harding

Pfft. I'm not healthy; I'm a writer, goddamnit! Get with the program.

— Universalclockwork

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

— Andrew Pyper

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

— Dee Rees

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down…

— Calvin Trillin

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

— Hamsalekha

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

— Zig Ziglar

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

— Daniel Levitin

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

— Rachel Caine

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

— Zadie Smith

“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.”

— Gerard de Marigny

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram