Writers Quotes · Page 45

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

— John le Carre

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot…

— Gore Vidal

“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.”

— Amay Saxena

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

— Alan Lightman

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

“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.”

— M.P. Sharma

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

— Stephen Kinzer

“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show,…

— Alison Brie

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they…

— Barbara Pym

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The…

— Graham Joyce

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many…

— David Mitchell

Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off…

— William Attwood

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,…

— Robert De Niro

“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going…

— Sara Sheridan

A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the…

— Kim Cattrall

As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people…

— Jason Katims

Once I enter the realm of depression or when I am at my happiest, those are the moments of realization when I…

— Needa Muy

“Writers,” Esther said simply. “For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ I will be very careful the next time I fall in love , she told herself. Also, she had made a…

— Richard Brautigan

“This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as…

— Louis Zukofsky

“We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive.…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales…

— Sara Sheridan

When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's…

— Ira Glass

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

“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

— Steve Martin

“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.”

— Danielle S. Allen

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny…

— Jose Saramago

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

— Jim Rash

I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

— Erik Larson

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

— Nina Jacobson

“I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”

— K.D. Green

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

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

— Rebecca West

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

— Ben Yagoda

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never…

— Alan Watt

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

— Robert De Niro