“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books. — Richard Scarry 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
Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp. — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.” — Stephanie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.” — Ksenia Anske 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
“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
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
I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind,… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of… — Fannie Hurst 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
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
“Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
“A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a writer .” “You’re a writer ? I’m a writer.”… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow,… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“and yet the original Writers at Work volumes, especially the first three, possessed a magic all their own. As a teenager, I… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
