writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins” — Paula V. Hardin Copy Share Image
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.” — Kristen Lamb Copy Share Image
“Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“There are literary works that speak for themselves and there are writers who boast through work.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.” — Janae Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
Last time I blushed was when I smoothed my hands over the back of my dress and actually touched skin. Seems the… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.” — Susan Larson Copy Share Image
“Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in… — Jessica Soffer Copy Share Image
Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major'… — John Scott Copy Share Image
Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
I absolutely don't write for women - far, far from it. It's so not what I want to do. Some of the… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
The general public doesn't expect romance authors to be Harvard graduates. Which is funny, because there are actually quite a lot of… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
As I've probably said before, television exposes writers to far more of the nitty-gritty than film does. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
