Writers Quotes · Page 33

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they…

— Orhan Pamuk

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

— Nicholson Baker

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might…

— Maria Lenhart

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone…

— Chris Stocking

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and…

— Sam Shepard

“Write, write, write! Get your you-know-what in the chair and write more books: write the books of your heart and don’t let…

— Sarra Cannon

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a…

— Heidi Julavits

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can…

— Joy Williams

“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist…

— Christopher Bram

“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their…

— Jamie L. Harding

'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They…

— Terrence McNally

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that…

— Harvey Pekar

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Once I was asked be a seatmate on a trans-Pacific flight…what instruction he should give his fifteen-year-old daughters, who wanted to be…

— Barry Lopez

“Writers used to be treated (except for the few brand name authors) as the bottom rung of the food chain.  We were…

— Bob Mayer

I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older,…

— Corey Taylor

“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of…

— Virginia Woolf

“And people turn to internet with the hope that in this virtual world, where real identity need not be disclosed, they will…

— Chitralekha Paul

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem

I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years.

— Suzanne Collins

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

— Robert Gottlieb

“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.”

— Greg Curtis

“I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like”

— Malebo Sephodi

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]”

— Franz Kafka

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

— Ilsa J. Bick

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't…

— Joseph O'Neill

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”

— William Browning Spencer

In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

— James L. Brooks

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

— Simon Kinberg

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

— Vanna Bonta