I think many writers write because it's a convenient way…

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

— William S. Burroughs

“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a great deal…

— Joseph Heller

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

— Aaron Sorkin

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole…

— Lee Hazlewood

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

— Paul Haggis

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends…

— Sylvia Plath

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq