Writers Quotes · Page 26

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

“Every artist takes their final work to the grave.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm not one of those writers who writes everyday.

— Sjon

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

— John Osborne

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

— Rachel Ward

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

— Brahmanandam

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

— Steve Toltz

“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.”

— Shannon Celebi

“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic”

— William Gibson

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

— Lisa Joy

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

— Michael Kimmelman

“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.”

— Christopher Bram

“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions”

— Vianka Van Bokkem

“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut…

— Walter Kirn

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write…

— Valerie June

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in…

— Don DeLillo

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot'…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never…

— David Morrell

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society…

— Sharon Olds

My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm always amazed by writers who say, 'Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a…

— Terence Winter

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really…

— David Guterson

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…

— William Strunk, Jr

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to…

— Katori Hall

“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,…

— Andrew Wilson

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like…

— Cornelia Funke

Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in…

— Doris Lessing

“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost…

— William Golding

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writers by affliction are an idiosyncratic lot.”

— Ken Goldstein

“As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

— Shashank Rayal

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

— Patrick Ness

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

— Mark Haddon

“The stories are not made, they are discovered.”

— Chandan Sharma

“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

— Richard Le Gallienne