Writers Quotes · Page 38

Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

— Jack McDevitt

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”

— Virginia Frances Schwartz

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

— Stephen King

Aussie actors and writers and crews, we really band together. Its like a family.

— Madeleine Madden

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

— Carl Reiner

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have…

— Erica Jong

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered…

— George Carlin

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that…

— Shannon L. Alder

Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or…

— Stephen J. Cannell

Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair…

— Anthony Doerr

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

— Saul David

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to…

— Edmund White

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

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

— Bob Mayer

“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

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

“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

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they…

— Robert Davi

The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of…

— James Fenton

“Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.”

— Jennifer Salaiz

People read romance novel one after another, their searching for the one story better than they could write themselves.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for…

— Brandi L. Bates

“Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology”

— Stephenie Meyer

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.

— Greg Kinnear

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

— Nicola Roberts

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good…

— Blair Brown

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

— Wanda Sykes

I think that successful writers somehow capture truths that resonate with readers.

— Steven Gundry

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

— Italo Calvino

“There is no such thing as an 'unemployed writer', only an unemployed mind”

— Kevin Cowdall

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

— Anthony Horowitz

“In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.”

— Christopher Bram

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk