I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to. — Tony Earley Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I've had a somewhat typical experience in that many of the contemporary writers I was exposed to early on were white and… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who… — Allan Savory Copy Share Image
“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
You're saying it wasn't your insecurities but in actuality, that's what made you leave. Now although the relationship is dead, I can't… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
