“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.” — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers.” — James Gough Copy Share Image
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception.” — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.” — Seeley James Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs,… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
“You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train… — John Irving Copy Share Image
'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of… — Eric Balfour Copy Share Image
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“I think it's incomparably sweet when someone writes something for you.. even if it doesn't rhyme or even if it isn't very… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little. — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus.… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air. — Warren Littlefield Copy Share Image
Few writers push the reader away with the coolness, dignity, and faint melancholy of Fleur Jaeggy. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
“Parallel worlds, right?" Aston nodded. "Our sci-fi writers love 'em." "They still do back home," Ludmilla assured him.” — David Weber Copy Share Image
I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world. — Jonathan Pryce Copy Share Image
I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Those who can't, and can't teach, translate. (attrib: F.L. Vanderson)” — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
