Writers Quotes · Page 37

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

— Ricky Jay

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of…

— Sylvia Plath

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

— Pankaj Mishra

“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.”

— Stephen Jones

Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

— Matthew Specktor

“An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell”

— Tim Lucas

“Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:”

— J.A. Pak

“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and…

— Anonymous

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and…

— Italo Calvino

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or…

— Christopher Koch

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my…

— Donald Miller

Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save…

— Alan Moore

That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life…

— Deborah Kara Unger

“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe…

— Nikki Giovanni

“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as…

— Louis Zukofsky

“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

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are…

— Larry Brooks

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and…

— Rick Yancey

“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics…

— Félix J. Palma

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.

— Salman Rushdie

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

— Christopher Golden

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

— Jorge Luis Borges

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

— Prue Leith

“I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot…

— Kendall Hailey

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

— Anthony Horowitz

“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.”

— Christopher Bram

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

— Sterling K. Brown

“Writers don't make peace with their past… They preserve the crumbs and weave stories around them”

— Gaurav Sharma

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

— Nell Scovell

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness…

— Mandy Patinkin

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

— Anonymous

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

— Toni Morrison