Writers Quotes · Page 42

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the…

— Kate DiCamillo

“The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.”

— Christy Hall

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

— Merritt Wever

“I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often…

— Marta McDowell

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

— Julianna Baggott

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

— Douglas Coupland

There are writers' rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone's process…

— Jim Rash

My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I…

— A. S. Byatt

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you need at least four of them, and…

— Billy Wilder

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull.…

— Miguel Syjuco

“Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.”

— William C. Samples

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to…

— Edmund White

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive…

— Elmore Leonard

“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company…

— John Crowley

“Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the…

— Dani Shapiro

“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is…

— Joseph Conrad

I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and…

— Rick Riordan

“In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and greatest expression of…

— Dostoyevsky

“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated…

— Sylvan Barnet

“At that moment, sitting on that park bench, The Writer was overcome by an indefinable sadness not completely ascribable to the state…

— Filippo Bologna

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

— Sissy Spacek

I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.

— Tana French

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as…

— Patricia Wentworth

“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

— E. B. White

“You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party”

— William Saroyan

The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

— Anonymous

“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat…

— Jarod Kintz

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean

The pen is mightier than the sword… unless you are percy jackson and they are the same thing

— Rick Riordan

“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.”

— Crystal Evans

“The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.”

— Mindy Kaling

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

— Zadie Smith