I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it." — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry of life in their own way, just like writers deal with archetypes. There… — Henry Mosquera Copy Share Image
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When we think about how to move our students into deeper levels of reading, it is helpful to remember an expression that… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I know that, like many other writers, I have many faults, for I am the first to be dissatisfied with myself .… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“EVERY WEDNESDAY, I teach an introductory fiction workshop at Harvard University, and on the first day of class I pass out a… — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own. — Amanda Bearse Copy Share Image
Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers. — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image