I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.” — Graeme Roberts Copy Share Image
“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Writers that are pouring their soul out for the world to see, will cast a perfect reflection of themselves in their work.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“Tonight is the night of telling our stories. You tell three and I four.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how… — Julius Schwartz Copy Share Image
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas,… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
I go back and research, say, every reference to the Gorgons, and I find what the classical writers said about them and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and greatest expression of… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Life is a story, and you are the author. You hold the pen, only you have the power to write your ending.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.” — Arthur Holitscher Copy Share Image
“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations — Charles De Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“You will always find me writing and reading as long as I have the breath of life within me.” — K.D. Green Copy Share Image
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. — Joanna Scott 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
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“No doubts our generation is producing another form of grub street literature.. Welcome to the world of hack writers..” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
