That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is…

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have…

— Joan Didion

The other thing - and writers can say whatever they want - is casting. You need to find a person who can inhabit that…

— Matthew Weiner

Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible,…

— Philip Jose Farmer

I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less…

— Larry Gelbart

The hardest thing writers have to do is figure out for themselves who they are. What should they be writing about? What stories should…

— Blake Crouch

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty…

— Tony Parsons

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or…

— Harriet Martineau

Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or…

— August Wilhelm Von Schlegel

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

— Horace

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If there's a will, there's a way! I feel larger than LIFE--and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have…

— Donna Scrima-Black

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself…

— Jean de la Bruyere

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon