Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines. — Tana French Copy Share Image
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob… — Ian Hunter Copy Share Image
If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended to younger… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr 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
“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Life is uncertain. Today you get a rose. Tomorrow you feel the thorns. But the end result is red, always!!” — Shillpi S Banerrji Copy Share Image
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you? — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
You have a voice don't be afraid to speak, live through your pen and create a legacy. — Michael Kilby Copy Share Image
“Didn’t he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“That's what lifts us up, us writers: we have our imagination, if nothing else.” — M. Beth Bloom Copy Share Image
“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs. — Kaskade Copy Share Image
Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it. — Sushan Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
