Writers Quotes · Page 31

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

— Zig Ziglar

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

— Hamsalekha

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

— Rachel Caine

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

— Wilson Mizner

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

— John Connolly

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

— Lisa Stansfield

One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere.

— Raymond Chandler

“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play…

— Jyoti Arora

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people…

— Tobias Wolff

One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring…

— Jon Huertas

Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the mood or…

— Robert Hilburn

The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting,…

— Lisa Tuttle

“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy…

— Alan Brennert

“..the writer’s obsession – the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest…

— Ivan Klima

“Do not think of this as the end. Think of this as the beginning of eternity together . I have always loved…

— Grace Willows

“For a writer it was perhaps most important not to write, but to read. Read as much as you can because in…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I…

— Comte de Lautréamont

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a…

— Jonathan Lethem

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life…

— Martin Amis

“[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics…

— Félix J. Palma

“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes…

— Ray Bradbury

“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence…

— Comte de Lautréamont

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on…

— Alexander Ahndoril

“Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.”

— Christy Hall

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

— John Dos Passos

“To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives.”

— Walter Benjamin

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

— Steve Martin

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

— Judith Guest

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

— Jack Black

“My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same…

— Carl Henegan

Getting kissed by a needle and bleeding every time. The art of writing.

— Needa Muy

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

— Laura Lippman

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

— Paul Di Filippo

I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.

— Mariella Frostrup

The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information.

— Jim Boeheim

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie