Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
I like a lot of Spanish language writers. I really love Javier Marias. — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more. — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers. — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds'… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers,… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
“...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.” — Jyrki Vainonen Copy Share Image
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows,… — Larry Cohen Copy Share Image
“It's a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructable in… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
