Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to…

Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially…

— Karl Shapiro

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone…

— Nick Flynn

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

— James Caan

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones,…

— Khaled Hosseini

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as…

— Anton Chekhov

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as…

— Karan Mahajan

“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some…

— Katherine Mansfield

I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at…

— Edward Allen Bernero

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

— Garry Disher

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying…

— Christopher Bollen

Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves…

— Miranda July