I think that like all writers - and if any writer…

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

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

— Jennifer Gilmore

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

— Jim Shepard

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

— Kevin Sampsell

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

— Steven Moffat

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

— Willa Cather

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 don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty…

— Charles Bukowski

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about…

— Jonathan Frakes