Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But who the fuck do we really put the blame on? The demons that are inside of her, or the ones who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.” — Keith Botsford Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood… — Bill Loguidice 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
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
You know, actors say, 'There are no bad roles, there are only bad actors.' Well, comedians, because they're also writers, believe that… — Sam Seder Copy Share Image
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“When people really are writers, they write. Artists draw. Golfers golf. Fish swim. Can’t keep them from it; it’s who they are.… — David Brisbin Copy Share Image
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I draw the art for the writers. A lil' chibi of each author crowns their articles. — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. — Charlaine Harris 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
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
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
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators. — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers. — Maurissa Tancharoen Copy Share Image
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.” — Jason E. Hodges 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
