Writers Quotes · Page 57

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

— Maeve Binchy

“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.”

— Tyler Hojberg

About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets.

— Samuel Johnson

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison

“Writers are different,” said Waldegrave. “I’ve never met one who was any good who wasn’t screwy.”

— Robert Galbraith

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

— James D. Watson

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the…

— Oscar Hijuelos

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have been very, very fortunate on this show, on 'Suits,' where the writers do come to me, and they ask my…

— Gina Torres

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions…

— Claire Tomalin

I love producing. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven…

— Brittany Murphy

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that…

— Simon Mawer

I always look for the writers and what they're creating. If it's something I don't buy, it's really hard for me to…

— Sarah Clarke

“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to…

— Stevie J. Cole

In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer…

— Terence Winter

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat…

— Richard Elman

“Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they…

— Rachel Heffington

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon…

— William S. Burroughs

One thing I learned that I didn't know before was that I can write. Because I think Glenn and myself, when we…

— Charlie Day

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their…

— Richard Bach

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the…

— Gillian Flynn

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to…

— C. JoyBell C

I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

— Vikas Swarup

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

— Vijay Seshadri

“This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his…

— Louis Zukofsky

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

— Jez Butterworth

“Every writer in this book has a slightly different process, but they all start with the same thing: a blank page.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.”

— Jennifer Webb

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

— Andrea Hirata

“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on…

— Colette Freedman

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

“All writers are readers first, and all of us write the sort of books we want to read.”

— George R.R. Martin

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

— Rajkumar Hirani

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

— Garry Hynes