I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago. — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you. — Lauren Daigle Copy Share Image
“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room. — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I know very few writers who outline fully before they start. It just doesn't seem possible to do, because so many things… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Most people keep their dreams to themselves, afraid to follow their hearts. Writers make their dreams a reality with each word, each… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
“If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited. — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. — George Murray Copy Share Image
It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.” — Jyrki Vainonen Copy Share Image
