Writers Quotes · Page 50

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

— Jack Black

“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.”

— Gerard de Marigny

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

— Zadie Smith

“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?”

— Christopher Bram

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

— Alberto Moravia

“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.”

— Bailey Elizabeth

I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

— Nathan Englander

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down…

— Calvin Trillin

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would…

— Joan Didion

Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another…

— Lucy Hughes-Hallett

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given…

— Wallace Shawn

I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me…

— El DeBarge

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for…

— Giles Foden

A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and…

— Umberto Eco

All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it…

— Sue Monk Kidd

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody…

— James Patterson

“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of…

— Ezra Pound

People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no…

— Rod Serling

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I…

— William Faulkner

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;…

— Harper Lee

Television and cable have become the new independent films, in a sense, for writers and actors to gravitate towards. That's why I…

— Campbell Scott

I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and…

— Khaled Hosseini

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a…

— May Sarton

Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.

— Daniel Levitin

My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

— Zig Ziglar

When I came into films, I found a vacuum in the field of lyricists, writers and composers.

— Hamsalekha

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

— Rachel Caine

“Writers: We can't get it right until we do it wrong. Then we do it better...”

— Diem Burden

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the…

— Caroline Rody

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

— Sheila Heti

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

— Jack Dempsey

Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.

— Ben Eine

“Sometimes, all you can take are memories But if you’re lucky enough to capture the moment, it lives forever, immortally fixed.”

— Keegan Allen

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“A writer's pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

— Carlos Fuentes

“Always pay homage to the soldier, and the harlot, for they are the martyrs of humanity’s growth”

— Michael Lieber