Writers Quotes · Page 43

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

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've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam…

— Harry Dean Stanton

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.…

— Doris Lessing

Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in…

— Kate Braverman

A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to…

— Jason Katims

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought…

— Adam Langer

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be…

— Cynthia Ozick

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting…

— Alan Zweibel

“The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little…

— Christy Hall

“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must…

— Christopher Bram

“What about his style?" asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted. "Turgid but grammatical. And,…

— P.D. James

They say theres a fine line between genius and insanity. If a man thinks he can write, does that make him genius…

— John Miller

“we write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up…

— Tahereh Mafi

I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't…

— Jim Woodring

Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I…

— Fran Lebowitz

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its…

— Michael Richardson

Very often I'm told that my heart's cold. That I'm the type to let my eyes speak what my mouth won't. That…

— Needa Muy

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

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

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

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