Fiction is a way for writers to preserve their friendships and their romances! — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I prefer a pen in my hand to a cigarette when I drink. It generally works out better for everybody. -D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.” — James L. Wilber Copy Share Image
Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends,… — Dorian Missick Copy Share Image
Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“You know your a survivor, a strong fighter, because you’re here in this moment. You must believe in your strength and courage… — Jawedquotes Copy Share Image
“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“Never cross an inspirational author or you will be the example of what not to be like in every one of their… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character. — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?” — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who… — Lori Ann Lesko Copy Share Image
