My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. — Pierre Berton Copy Share Image
“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
“People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire… — Bible Copy Share Image
“To those that don't believe I'm worth more than what they think of other authors, to hell with them. Call me arrogant… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
“When she got back from taking Cassie to school Fancy knew that she ought to be working on her wilderness romance. She… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose—Timothy Ferris, Richard… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
“If you're the 'brilliant writer' in the room, you're in the wrong writers' room.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent. — Paul Lieberstein Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.” — Heidi Pitlor Copy Share Image
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“You are immensely gifted my friend You can find it within you Like I found something within me A few years ago...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
