Writers Quotes · Page 48

Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes.

— Dee Rees

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they…

— Orhan Pamuk

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

— Nicholson Baker

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

— Elbert Hubbard

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

— Aminatta Forna

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a…

— Maeve Binchy

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money…

— Herbert Gold

To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending…

— Anonymous

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,…

— Anthony Bourdain

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done…

— A. S. Byatt

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve…

— Eliza Leslie

“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is…

— Zaeema J. Hussain

It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky…

— Denise Mina

“You’ve got to write every day as if you were clocking in for a job. Or if not every day, then damn…

— Benjamin Percy

“I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an…

— George R.R. Martin

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or…

— Barbara Kruger

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another…

— Ha Jin

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like…

— Amos Oz

There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us…

— Ray Bradbury

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant…

— Lev Grossman

“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Not everyone will like what you write but there's a certain group who'll love what you write. Keep WRITING for them.”

— David Chuka

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

“You see, unlike most writers today, I do not use a computer. I write the old-fashioned way: on the walls of caves.”

— Cuthbert Soup

“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.”

— Terry Lander

I like to work with co-writers because I think it's really fun to bounce ideas off each other.

— Sara Evans

“Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...”

— Christy Hall

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

— Aldous Huxley

I'm envious of writers and musicians. I think it must be so difficult. Not just the frustration, but the discipline.

— Michael Keaton

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

— Christopher Bram

“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

— Tobias Wolff

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

— Tom Robbins

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in…

— David Alan Basche

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke