I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser. Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
What we need to do, as writers, is find out where our market is and adapt to it. I'm not saying that… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“I feel strongly against professionalism, against someone’s feeling he has to write a book every year to keep his name before the… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a story would be, somehow… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
