Writers Quotes · Page 46

The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

— Kaskade

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

“That's what lifts us up, us writers: we have our imagination, if nothing else.”

— M. Beth Bloom

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”

— Amit Kalantri

“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

— Richard Yates

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

— Brion Gysin

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who…

— Walter Benjamin

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of…

— Lynn Abbey

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all…

— William Styron

Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you…

— Amity Shlaes

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing…

— Edna Ferber

“For writers, writing is a great activity to engage your mind, body, and life. As, you know: taking on hobbies and activities…

— Prince Akwarandu

“Writing is hard . That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right…

— Andy Ihnatko

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'…

— Margaret Atwood

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's…

— Stevie Nicks

“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their…

— Francine Prose

There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and…

— Rhea Perlman

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,…

— Jennifer Egan

“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be…

— Eudora Welty

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and…

— George Orwell

One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely…

— Larry Howes

“Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?”

— Christopher Bram

You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy.

— Michael Kilby

For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too…

— Hilary Mantel

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

“Life is uncertain. Today you get a rose. Tomorrow you feel the thorns. But the end result is red, always!!”

— Shillpi S Banerrji

“The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.”

— Steven Pressfield

“There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice.”

— Elizabeth Hernandez

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

— Andy Rooney

As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

— Wallace Shawn

“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job…

— Sara Sheridan

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a…

— Justin Long

“Never hurt writers. They may forgive you, but their pen never does.”

— J. Alchem

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

— Juliette Lewis

Repressed English writers have to write love stories because they can't say what they really mean.

— Simon Beaufoy

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

— Karen Russell