I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store…

I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching, I wrote…

— Guy Davenport

“So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it…

— Charles Bukowski

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There are only…

— Henry Mosquera

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look…

— Shonda Rhimes

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

— Willa Cather

I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing…

— Washed Out

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing…

— El DeBarge

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of other writers…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat