Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I am always trying to stick my emotions into people and things with no emotion. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“She meant you have to live a story for a time.' 'And?' 'And then you can write it, in time. What have… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic… — César Aira Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
“Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“ I will be very careful the next time I fall in love , she told herself. Also, she had made a… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.” — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.” — Terri Costola Copy Share Image
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers. — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.” — Greg Sushinsky Copy Share Image
“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it… — Geary Davis Copy Share Image
“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have… — Jay Harrington Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
