Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I'm a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Writers Guild of Canada. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays. — Rob Urbinati Copy Share Image
You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
My father mainly liked writers. His friends were writers. He wanted to find the writing. That was his main frustration I think. — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators… — James E. Irby Copy Share Image
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After so many years, I've learned that being creative is a full-time job with its own daily patterns. That's why writers, for… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done.… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Kindle Worlds is a clever way to monetize a formerly underground trend, and to enable its participants to be remunerated. But it… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier.… — Christopher Cross Copy Share Image
“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the… — Ron Dakron Copy Share Image
If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled a dream to… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
