What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by…

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.…

— Billy Joel

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with…

— Dorothy Parker

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

— Ken Follett

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

— Rudy Rucker

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

— Mo Yan

“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur books by…

— Terri Windling

Many writers do write about their families and their immediate loved ones and love experiences, either as children or as adults. And very often…

— Anne Roiphe

I tell aspiring writers that you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter…

— Rick Riordan

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

— Marianne Williamson

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

“Honestly,” he says, “I judge writers on how they write queries. If you’re a good writer, you’re a good writer.” And if not, then…

— Keith Gessen

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

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

— Steven Moffat

You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.

— Joe Pasternak