Characters, as most writers understand, are truly…

People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that such stories…

— Rajkummar Rao

It feels as though a very disproportionate number of main characters are writers, because that's what the writer knows. Fair enough. But nothing bothers…

— B. J. Novak

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how…

— Mark Haddon

“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

“Smart writers understand that writing is also a business. Really smart writers see themselves also as entrepreneurs. Barry Eisler”

— Guy Kawasaki

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

— Orson Scott Card

If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of…

— Sophie Okonedo

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

— Ali Wong

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are…

— William Saroyan

The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They…

— Edmund White

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro