Writers Quotes · Page 51

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

— Harper Lee

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.

— Alice Walker

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

— Roxane Gay

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves.

— Andrea Brown

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child…

— John Ridley

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.…

— Ezra Pound

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…

— F. Sionil Jose

“I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the…

— Christy Hall

Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge…

— Christopher Koch

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you…

— Del Shannon

I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of…

— Anonymous

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like…

— Stephen Gaghan

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three…

— James Lipton

“Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story,…

— Francis M. Nevins

“Writers, by their very nature,  live a thousand lives and die a thousand times.  They experience loss each time a character dies. …

— Larry Ray Palmer

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to…

— Karin Slaughter

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said…

— E. L. Doctorow

“Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to…

— Francine Prose

“Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in…

— Gertrude Atherton

You're all alone when you're a writer. Sometimes you just feel you need a humanity bath. Even a ride on the subway…

— Saul Bellow

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse…

— Elif Batuman

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

— David Farland

Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

— Mahesh Babu

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

— Norman Mailer

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

— James Thurber

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

— Greg Iles

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very…

— Florence King

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

— Michael Ventura

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

— Alison Brie

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

— Julian Barnes

All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.

— Lena Waithe