The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.” — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
I will be moving to London to reinvent my whole identity the way Alice (Jane Jones) did in the movie, Closer. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“If stone-sober people can fuck like they're out of their minds -- can actually be out of their minds while caught in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it… — Sherwood Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Do Engineers have stories, Jack?" he asked. "What?" Jack said, without moving. "Stories. Myths. Things to keep the boredom out on a… — Sam Starbuck Copy Share Image
Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board:… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human… — Gert Loveday Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The road that led me to literature was very different from the one followed by my fellow writers in Poland. — Marek Hlasko Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
“If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous. — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that. — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
“All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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