Writers Quotes · Page 62

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have…

— Anatole Broyard

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

— Gloria Steinem

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

— John Cooper Clarke

“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.”

— Pádraig Pearse

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to…

— Hisham Matar

“Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.”

— Pat Conroy

My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.

— Pierre Berton

Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.

— Gloria Steinem

Last time I blushed was when I smoothed my hands over the back of my dress and actually touched skin. Seems the…

— Gena Showalter

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,…

— Lynda Obst

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

— Stieg Larsson

I can remember in my early days of writing going to sort of writers' functions and parties and things like that, and…

— Ronald Frame

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find…

— Natasha Trethewey

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read…

— John Irving

In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend…

— Eleanor Catton

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in…

— Jessica Hagedorn

“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab.…

— Bennett Cerf

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers…

— Anonymous

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of…

— Jed Whedon

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of…

— Anonymous

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think…

— Richard Ford

“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the…

— Brenda Ueland

Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really…

— Aimee Bender

“People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.”

— Albert Camus

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

— Thomas C Foster

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

— Scott Westerfeld

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

— Cyril Connolly

I think all writers have a style, a particular voice and rhythm that you have to find.

— Sarah Lancashire

I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's…

— Louise Penny

I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

— Donald Ray Pollock

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

— William Stafford

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

— Marilyn Monroe

Yeah, I think good writers have a lot of discipline and I don't have that in me.

— Alex G

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

“It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.”

— Kristen Lamb

“Writers strive for the impossible: perfection. Even the universe is flawed.”

— Chloe Thurlow

“Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins”

— Paula V. Hardin

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a…

— Vikram Seth