Writers Quotes · Page 48

We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.

— Nicola Roberts

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

— Nadine Gordimer

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly…

— Jennifer Egan

“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.”

— Sara Sheridan

Some writers are prolific; some are shape-shifters. It's rare and intimidating to encounter one who is both.

— Rumaan Alam

I have a problem with blogs - all the best writers benefit from edits.

— Rick Moranis

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the…

— Hope Edelman

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get…

— William Golding

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond…

— Francine Prose

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury

“I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work—and each…

— Chila Woychik

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the…

— Anne Beatts

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert…

— Marguerite Young

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because…

— Terry Pratchett

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often…

— Lisa Unger

“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no…

— Kameron Hurley

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one…

— Sōseki Natsume

The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces…

— Chuck Klosterman

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious…

— Andrei Codrescu

“Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back…

— Inez Kelley

I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to…

— Sandra Cisneros

I met him. Him; him who in the midst of my terrible sorrow, fell in love with my madness. Him who was…

— Needa Muy

“I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your…

— Jamie Weise

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

— Ben Domenech

All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.

— Ron White

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

— Alfred Lansing

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

— Alice Walker

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

— Peter Coyote

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

— Len Wein

“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”

— Haruki Murakami

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

— Naomi Wood

“All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.”

— Ann Marie Frohoff

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

Most people in the world of comedy at least are multi-hyphenates, so people who direct are also writers.

— Judd Apatow

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.

— Edward St Aubyn

“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer