There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
As a format, I have watched shows from the West. I have tried to understand what it is and how this format… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing,… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Yes, even old American writers are dancing like it is still the eighties in San Francisco, like the sexual revolution has been… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds.… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought… — Adam Langer 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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