Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
“...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision. — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
“(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)”… — Margaret Harriman Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the… — Chitralekha Paul Copy Share Image
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.” — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Serious writers pretend they don't care about film adaptations of their work, but it's a colossal lie: We all care. — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. I have no ghost writers. — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
The more shows that there are, the better it is for the industry. The writers are busy, if the writers are busy,… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
