Writers Quotes · Page 33

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be…

— Anne Roiphe

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

Write from your heart. Write from your soul... Make the best of your talent & dont let go. Not for anything...

— KJ

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in…

— David Alan Basche

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as…

— Elmore Leonard

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites…

— Nadine C. Keels

I've become a day writer: most people start as night writers, and I used to be, but something happened to my endocrine…

— Douglas Coupland

These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I…

— Julie Andrews

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave…

— Mary Ruefle

“Kwa nini Biblia imejaa mafumbo? Biblia imejaa mafumbo kwa sababu akili za watu bado hazijakomaa kuupokea ukweli. Yesu na waandishi wote wa…

— Enock Maregesi

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many…

— R. L. Stine

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like…

— Karl Kraus

Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling…

— Karen Russell

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life…

— Martin Amis

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on…

— Alexander Ahndoril

“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence…

— Comte de Lautréamont

No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted…

— Lynda Barry

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

— Tim Roth

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

— Michael Ventura

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

— Alison Brie

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do…

— Aleksandar Hemon

All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.

— Lena Waithe

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

— Julian Barnes

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very…

— Florence King

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

— Mahesh Babu

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

— David Farland

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

— Norman Mailer

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

— James Thurber