I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic. — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.” — K.D. Green Copy Share Image
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw. — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas,… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“And it’s great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words.… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
As an unpublished, nonprofessional writer working on my first novel, I nevertheless had access to extremely talented people who would help make… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
“What happens to the people who became writers because yakking and tweeting and bragging felt to them like intolerably shallow forms of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never… — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.” — M.P. Sharma Copy Share Image
Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.” — Danielle S. Allen Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but no one in Brave Heart carried one.~M.J. McGuire — MJ McGuire Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.” — Amay Saxena Copy Share Image
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image