As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Fancourt can't write women,' said Nina dismissively. 'He tries but he can't do it. His women are all temper, tits and tampons.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
“I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.” — Virginia Frances Schwartz Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people, who want to be writers, who stumble at a blank page. You could imagine an algorithm… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again. — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I wish not to tell you how I feel I choose silence so that you leave Kiss me goodbye and set me… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.” — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
People read romance novel one after another, their searching for the one story better than they could write themselves. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good… — Blair Brown Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
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