Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all…

“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to them as…

— Stevie J. Cole

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a…

— Mary Oliver

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

— Stephen Sondheim

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

— Chris Priestley

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

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

— Willa Cather

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

— Jennifer Gilmore

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

— Kevin Sampsell

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'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

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

“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

“Writers write like readers and read like writers.”

— Laura Hamilton

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

— Jim Shepard

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

— Steven Moffat