Writers Quotes · Page 35

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

— Norman Mailer

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

— James Thurber

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

— Greg Iles

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very…

— Florence King

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth”

— Michael Lieber

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who…

— Shonda Rhimes

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine.…

— Flea

Peaky' is a very personal thing for me because it's based on stories that I was told as a kid by my…

— Steven Knight

There is nothing inspiring about this at all. Truthfully, not everything sad is art and sometimes sad shit is really all that…

— Needa Muy

Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But…

— Johnny Mize

“Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites…

— Nadine C. Keels

Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew…

— Retta

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is…

— Fay Weldon

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:…

— Sophie Hannah

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and…

— Alan Rickman

Life is a story, and you are the author. You hold the pen, only you have the power to write your ending.…

— Anonymous

“At that moment, sitting on that park bench, The Writer was overcome by an indefinable sadness not completely ascribable to the state…

— Filippo Bologna

“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Please then, can we stop this obsession with the tiny minority of writers who have made a fortune from their work, and/or…

— Caroline Sanderson

I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and…

— Rick Riordan

“In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and greatest expression of…

— Dostoyevsky

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

— Carlos Fuentes

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

— Harper Lee

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

— Alice Walker

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child…

— John Ridley

“Writers: We can't get it right until we do it wrong. Then we do it better...”

— Diem Burden

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the…

— Caroline Rody

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

— Sheila Heti

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

— Jack Dempsey

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

— Ben Eine

“Sometimes, all you can take are memories But if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment, it lives forever, immortally fixed.”

— Keegan Allen