Writers Quotes · Page 38

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

— Ana Navarro

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

— John Cheever

True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

— Wole Soyinka

“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite…

— Roman Payne

I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending…

— Stephen Graham Jones

“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our…

— Hal Zina Bennett

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered…

— Martina McBride

It is a commonplace to say that novelists should be judged by their work rather than their private lives or their publicly…

— Justin Cartwright

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this…

— William S. Burroughs

There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see…

— Lawrence Schiller

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't…

— Todd Solondz

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from…

— Elmore Leonard

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

— Comte de Lautréamont

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 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

When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers…

— Marian Keyes

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

— Anonymous

It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.

— Olivia Newton-John

It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do.

— Bill Duke

“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.”

— Sharon Maas

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

— J. B. Priestley

“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

— Sanober Khan

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to…

— Ash Sweeney

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

— Mat Kearney

Some journal writers choose to password-protect their site, which is either an incredibly responsible act or a paranoid one.

— Jami Attenberg

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.”

— Michael Graves

“Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open.”

— William S. Burroughs

“As writers we have the profound privilege and responsibility to create a new world when the current one takes a turn for…

— Chris Colfer