Writers Quotes · Page 37

“The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.”

— Mindy Kaling

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

— Zadie Smith

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

— Gaston Leroux

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.

— Alasdair MacLean

“Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.”

— Crystal Evans

The pen is mightier than the sword… unless you are percy jackson and they are the same thing

— Rick Riordan

“What are they like, writers, in your mind: it may seem strange, but initially it’s not about writing. A writer is someone…

— Christian Bobin

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give…

— Susan Cheever

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need…

— Lisa Gardner

If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes,…

— William Sadler

Kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to…

— Maya Angelou

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in…

— Alok Mishra

Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they…

— John le Carre

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce…

— Edward Abbey

“lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the…

— Chitralekha Paul

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it…

— Helen Bevington

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should…

— Marisha Pessl

One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill…

— Anonymous

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been…

— Rumaan Alam

“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink,…

— Jo Baker

“Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. 'Theme for a novel: The…

— John Crowley

The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human…

— Milan Kundera

The more shows that there are, the better it is for the industry. The writers are busy, if the writers are busy,…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

— Walter Lippmann

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality…

— Gary Shteyngart

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

— Tony Gilroy

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

— Dennis Potter

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

— Amy Adams

Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do…

— Charlie Murphy

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

— Ned Beauman

As one of your writers said, 'There are three kinds of lies: a small lie, a big lie and politics.

— Anonymous

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

— William Gaddis

Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

— N. Scott Momaday

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.

— Lloyd Alexander

Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. I have no ghost writers.

— David Wilkerson