I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
He traded in what he thought he had no control over for someone who he knew how to manipulate. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
“Some writers are rejected for the very creativity that is often needed and used to inspire the world.” — T.J. Mihaila Copy Share Image
“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?” — Alyssa Hubbard Copy Share Image
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When I was a child, there were two Nigerian writers in every bookshop: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The first and primary requirement for me in a director that I'd want to work with is: do they love writing, and… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Look, writers aren't perfect , I want to cry, any more than husbands and wives are perfect. The only unfailing rule is,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Some will think your writing is genius. Some will think it juvenile. What's important is that you, the writer, are satisfied with… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We… — Jennifer A. Marsh Copy Share Image
It is the most annoyingly painful feeling in the world when there is someone willing to write until their fingers have ached… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
“Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.” — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Writers create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“A witer's mind is NEVER silent. It is always conducting the next symphony of words.” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Write a book, create an identity, create a property, create a legacy for yourself.” — Neeraj Singhvi Copy Share Image
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We finally realize this one day that our solitude is a blessing for us!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
