Writers Quotes · Page 60

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.”

— Christopher D. Votey

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

— Kate Atkinson

I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

— Diablo Cody

“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

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

“You know your a survivor, a strong fighter, because you’re here in this moment. You must believe in your strength and courage…

— Jawedquotes

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability…

— Mos Def

“A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a…

— Alan Ball

Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse…

— Charles T Sprading

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

I spent years of being a ghost / Unsure of where home is anymore / I tell them I feel nothing /…

— Needa Muy

“Writing isn’t necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What…

— Shannon L. Alder

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city —…

— Malcolm Cowley

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat…

— Chancery Stone

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I…

— Kingsley Amis

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest…

— D. J. MacHale

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most…

— Harlan Coben

“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of…

— Ann Patchett

“It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like…

— Sara Sheridan

Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself…

— Kevin Grevioux

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

— Ridley Scott

“Writers and magicians do essentially the same thing, they create worlds with words and will.”

— James L. Wilber

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

— Thomas Perry

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

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

The voice of universe can be silenced but the voice of writers cannot be.

— Gulzar

“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.”

— Zachary Koukol

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to…

— John Irving

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

— Irwin Shaw

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

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

— Paul Lieberstein

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.

— William Gibson