Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am always trying to stick my emotions into people and things with no emotion. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“He finished his drink. 'I don’t like mornings either,' he said. “That’s why I’m a writer.” — Dorothy B. Hughes Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.” — Terri Costola Copy Share Image
Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,… — John Clute Copy Share Image
Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the… — Steve Gilliard Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“Beneath the nice book cover, camera angles, format of the page, size of the canvas, sound of the song – was someone… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!"… — John Irving Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
“Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people,… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down your feelings on papers.” — Sohil Ashvin Shah Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.” — Jyrki Vainonen Copy Share Image
Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: “You were silly like us.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
“Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
One should take writers' valuations of their own work with a pinch of salt: they are likely to rank them differently tomorrow. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
“I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway. — George Murray Copy Share Image
It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character. — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
