I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different. — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.” — Bruce Van Horn Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Creativity. Inspiration. We worship them here, Donald. They are our guidance, and we revere them. Do you understand? Revere them. So many… — David Bischoff Copy Share Image
I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“GIRL, write YOUR book dammit. Who cares what people think? If writers in the past cared what other people thought we'd still… — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
A lot of people have an opinion on scripts, but they aren't equipped to diagnose what the problems are. You realize that… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives open. That alone… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
“I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work — one that is just about respectfully showing up… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“My books have all been very deeply felt. You don’t spend eight years of your life working on a trendy knockoff. In… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“I think most writers … write about episodes meaningful to them in terms of their own imaginations. Now that would include a… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“It's unfortunate that we don't have a mentor system anymore. In the Renaissance, artists were apprentices to masters. You learn to do… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. — Ian Hunter Copy Share Image
I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image