Writers Quotes · Page 42

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

— Jim Rash

“I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.”

— K.D. Green

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

— Nina Jacobson

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

— Ben Yagoda

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

— Rebecca West

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

— John Kricfalusi

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

— Robert De Niro

“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about…

— Nick Hornby

“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up.…

— Anne Lamott

I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder…

— Shoshannah Stern

But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they…

— Thomas Fleming

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung…

— Patti Smith

I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage…

— Chris D'Elia

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you…

— James Gandolfini

Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover…

— Red Haircrow

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details…

— Lorrie Moore

“Don't say it is too hard or you can't find the words and please don't tell me there isn't enough time in…

— CK Webb

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have…

— Pearl Cleage

“The writers I most enjoy reading, even in gritty, down-to-earth genres, have a touch of the poet in them; they can create…

— Charles Kowalski

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often…

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never…

— Alan Watt

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny…

— Jose Saramago

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

— Steve Martin

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

— Naomi Alderman

“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.”

— Danielle S. Allen

“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.”

— M.P. Sharma

“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

— Stephen Kinzer

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled…

— Errol Morris

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select…

— Arthur Herzog

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

— Gore Vidal

Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

— Erma Bombeck

“Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.”

— Vita Sackville-West

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

— Niall Williams