Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow. — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In a world that devalues creativity, writers stand in a courageous place.” — Greg Sushinsky Copy Share Image
“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it… — Geary Davis Copy Share Image
“Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have… — Jay Harrington Copy Share Image
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We… — Margaret Whiting Copy Share Image
“The more gifted of these individuals became writers or artists. Even though they were able to point to the truth in the… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
“Too many writers start with a good idea and carry it through the first chapters, then fall apart because they had no… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Actors can be good, say all these beautiful, wonderful things - but where does it come from? It comes from the writers,… — Eva Marie Saint Copy Share Image
“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“If you ask for my opinion in what regards Tim Ferris, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling, you… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that… — André Breton Copy Share Image
There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know… — David Small Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.” — Stephen Jones Copy Share Image
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell” — Tim Lucas Copy Share Image
Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers. — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
