“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself. — Joe Pasternak Copy Share Image
If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make peace with their past… They preserve the crumbs and weave stories around them” — Gaurav Sharma Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end… — Mary O'Hara Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented...… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at… — Scott F. Falkner Copy Share Image
I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in… — Chuck Inglish Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. — Tana French Copy Share Image
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
“I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often… — Marta McDowell Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz 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
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