Writers Quotes · Page 32

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

— Alberto Moravia

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play…

— Jyoti Arora

“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.”

— Christy Hall

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

— Steve Martin

“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.”

— Walter Benjamin

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need…

— Lisa Gardner

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and…

— Miranda July

I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds…

— Malala Yousafzai

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who…

— Shonda Rhimes

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.…

— Flea

Peaky' is a very personal thing for me because it's based on stories that I was told as a kid by my…

— Steven Knight

There is nothing inspiring about this at all. Truthfully, not everything sad is art and sometimes sad shit is really all that…

— Needa Muy

Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But…

— Johnny Mize

“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The…

— Kirk Douglas

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains…

— Gustave Flaubert

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

“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written…

— Christopher Bram

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

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern…

— George Orwell

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit…

— Jane Austen

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

— Jack Black

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

— Wilson Mizner

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

— John Connolly

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

— Lisa Stansfield

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

— Mariella Frostrup

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

— Paul Di Filippo

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

— Jim Boeheim

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

Getting kissed by a needle and bleeding every time. The art of writing.

— Needa Muy

“My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same…

— Carl Henegan

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

— Laura Lippman

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

— Edna Ferber

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

— Joan Didion

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald