Writers Quotes · Page 51

I love co-writing. That whole process is a challenge in that good writers are pushing you.

— Lauren Daigle

“I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.”

— Christy Hall

All good communal storytelling comes from the sagas and arguments within the writers room.

— Chris Claremont

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

— Robert Ben Garant

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

“He offered her power, money, status... a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.”

— Jamie Weise

The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility.

— Sarah MacLean

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads…

— Rebecca Solnit

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,…

— Tom Stoppard

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy…

— B. J. Novak

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Writers may not want to spend time blogging or on social networks but there is no single better way to reach out…

— Anonymous

For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much.…

— Rob Lowe

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

— Stieg Larsson

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find…

— Natasha Trethewey

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow…

— Jeff Phillips

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence,…

— Isabel Allende

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright…

— Christopher Hopper

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

— Ray Bradbury

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under…

— E. B. White

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I…

— William Saroyan

“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase.…

— Paul Di Filippo

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

— Sinclair Lewis

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

“Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“Bootlicking is only a way to get published, not to become a writer”

— Himmilicious

Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do

— Anonymous

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)”

— Bernard Malamud

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

— Sarah Lancashire

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's…

— Louise Penny

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

— Cyril Connolly

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

— Marilyn Monroe

Yeah, I think good writers have a lot of discipline and I don't have that in me.

— Alex G

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

— Donald Ray Pollock

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

— William Stafford

Black writers seldom get the opportunity to write superhero stories.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

— Elizabeth Bowen