Know Writers Quotes

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

— Gail Honeyman

Growing up, I didn't know any writers and felt somewhat isolated.

— Marie Lu

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

— Rita Dove

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

— Dennis Potter

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

— George R. R. Martin

I know writers, and they seem to be the most disgruntled part of the art world.

— Jonathan Pryce

I know of a few writers who are husband and wife teams.

— Sylvia Day

I know some writers that have a million novel ideas, but I don't.

— Laura van den Berg

I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel,…

— F. Paul Wilson

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to…

— Judy Blume

I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island,…

— Howard Gordon

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that…

— Marc Maron

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“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…

— John Irving

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you…

— James Gandolfini

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

— Ray Charles

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

— Glenn Ficarra

My father probably taught me everything I know, aside from dialogue, which I think I get from my mom a lot more.…

— John Buffalo Mailer

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

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

— Garth Marenghi

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

— Anonymous

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

— Orson Scott Card

If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

I know very few writers who outline fully before they start. It just doesn't seem possible to do, because so many things…

— Tom Perrotta