Writers Quotes · Page 52

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

— Tim Roth

Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

— Patrick deWitt

“Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.”

— Janet Wallach

many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.

— Judy Delton

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to…

— Tobias Wolff

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

— Rita Mae Brown

I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.

— Katori Hall

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and…

— Leonard Bishop

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little…

— Tobias Wolff

“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours…

— Arthur Smith

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the…

— Shannon L. Alder

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned…

— Leslie Dixon

I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write…

— Debbie Reynolds

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and…

— William Saroyan

“If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said.…

— Walter Mosley

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

The problems that other writers encounter are so fascinating to me as a writer and as a thinker about writing. I have…

— Emily Barton

“For a writer, it seems a help rather than a hindrance to be at least a little crazy. Who but a crazy…

— Leland Dirks

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands…

— Marcel Proust

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the…

— Sloane Crosley

“The journey took about a week each way, and each day had my parents both in its grip. Riding behind my father,…

— Eudora Welty

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

— Cybill Shepherd

“I see so many kids that love being writers more than they love writing.”

— Scroobius Pip

People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D.

— D Michael Hardy

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't…

— Joseph O'Neill

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”

— William Browning Spencer

In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

— James L. Brooks

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

— Simon Kinberg

People say I give the best head, and they're not always talking about sex.

— Vanna Bonta

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

— Nick Flynn

“All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing”

— Carl Henegan

“What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.”

— Christy Hall

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little…

— Alice Mattison

I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.

— Alan Cheuse

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

— Gloria Steinem