Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“You can’t give what you don’t have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one… — Chrys Fey Copy Share Image
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Until the writers room sets it down on a sheet of paper and then it gets in front of a camera, it's… — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Everyone who made 'Save the Date,' like the writers and the director, they're all happily married and not anti-marriage at all, so… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of… — Brea Grant Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Eating was still a sore point with Smriti.She failed to understand,when interesting options like mango juice or chocolates were available,why was she… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good,… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction.… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs, as well as many other untried writers who went on to… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!” — Chocolate Waters Copy Share Image
Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I apologize to my words for not nurturing you and giving you the attention that you deserve.” — Terry A O'Neal Copy Share Image
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it. — Buddy Rice Copy Share Image
“If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous. — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that. — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
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