You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Write from your heart. Write from your soul... Make the best of your talent & dont let go. Not for anything... — KJ Copy Share Image
Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
“I still wanted to prove that I was the best of all the second-rate writers. I refused all further requests to write… — Koonchung Chan Copy Share Image
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because… — Alonso Duralde Copy Share Image
Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that,… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words.… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“And it’s great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
“Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.” — David Chuka Copy Share Image
“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.” — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.” — Terry Lander Copy Share Image
I like to work with co-writers because I think it's really fun to bounce ideas off each other. — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
“If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.” — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Pfft. I'm not healthy; I'm a writer, goddamnit! Get with the program. — Universalclockwork Copy Share Image
Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
