Writers Quotes · Page 40

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do.

— Bill Duke

“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.”

— Sharon Maas

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

— J. B. Priestley

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

— Vikas Swarup

To the question always asked, 'why do you write?' the response of the poet will always be the briefest 'In order to…

— Ash Sweeney

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

— Sherman Alexie

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by…

— Mary Gordon

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When…

— Rex Stout

Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas…

— Brian Stableford

I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay…

— Eric Stoltz

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

— Elizabeth Berg

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know…

— Tess Gerritsen

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a…

— Augusten Burroughs

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I…

— Comte de Lautréamont

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life…

— Martin Amis

The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern…

— George Orwell

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit…

— Jane Austen

I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in…

— Joshua Ferris

“To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains…

— Gustave Flaubert

“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

— Sanober Khan

“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.”

— Amay Saxena

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot…

— Gore Vidal

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

— Alan Lightman

“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a…

— John le Carré

Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

— John le Carre

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but no one in Brave Heart carried one.~M.J. McGuire

— MJ McGuire

Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

— Julianna Baggott

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

— Mos Def

“The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.”

— Christy Hall

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

— Merritt Wever

“I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often…

— Marta McDowell

“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

— Sissy Spacek