“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all… — William Styron Copy Share Image
One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard . That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right… — Andy Ihnatko Copy Share Image
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.… — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Many writers, including myself, have detailed how irresponsible government actions slow economic recoveries. Similar behavior by individuals impedes growth, too. If you… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“For writers, writing is a great activity to engage your mind, body, and life. As, you know: taking on hobbies and activities… — Prince Akwarandu Copy Share Image
Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“I have never experienced writers block and I've written every day since June 1972. But I have experienced the need to get… — Jan Marquart Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think writers always want to be taken seriously as writers, but it's not always possible. There's a difference between persistence and… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they’re good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you… — W.P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end… — Mary O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams." --… — of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998 James Wood review in London Review of Books Copy Share Image
It's worth being suspicious of writers - or anyone! - who does that myth-making thing. There's always a tendency to retrospectively impose… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented...… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show,… — Alison Brie Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood Copy Share Image
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it… — David Karp Copy Share Image
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![“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day." [ Academy Award ceremony , March 2, 2014]” quote by Robert De Niro](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7db/robert-de-niro-3745_academy-award_the-mind-of-a-writer-can-be-a-truly-terr_2388459.jpg)
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