I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots…

I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.

— George R. R. Martin

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the…

— Ray Charles

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

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.

— Jack Bickham

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

— Joe Pasternak

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

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Richard Scarry

“I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.”

— Garth Marenghi

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

— Anonymous

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good…

— John Irving

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra