Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. — John Steinbeck 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
“I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack” — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do. — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When writers say that they need to 'set the mood' or 'get into the zone', those are all ways to procrastinate. Not… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things. — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on.… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Every single tune you know from the 1940s until the 1970s was written, arranged, and demoed in the Brill Building. OK, maybe… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“People don't like to talk about alcohol. They don't like to think about it, except in the most superficial of ways. They… — Olivia Laing 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
“As the lives of their characters develop, they end up on paths that writers could not possibly have foreseen—and hence give the… — Cass R. Sunstein Copy Share Image
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
“They say a writer is not a single person, it is a bunch of characters. What I learned from life is that… — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on… — Orafoura Copy Share Image
“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
