Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
There are some writers who don't write about people who do jobs. I'm not going to name them, but you watch one… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
“These young writers nowadays. They spend more time networking to promote their writing careers than writing their books. Maybe that’s why there… — Lauren Carr Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24',… — Cherry Jones Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A number of mysterious words , secretive puzzles, lot many confusionsand dilemma when enters a mind and make you feel a bit… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I think it's important to find out who all the writers were and make sure everyone gets a fair cut - but… — Becky Hill Copy Share Image
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
