Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I have a pretty big TV background, and I have clocked so many hours in so many writers' rooms over the years. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money.” — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“Writers who don’t produce copy—or leave it so long that they couldn’t possibly produce something good—are giving themselves the perfect excuse for… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I consider 'White Collar' my home base. I'm so lucky to get to play a character that's very multifaceted and the writers… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
“You are the author of your own life story. A journey that never truly ends. How will the final chapter unfold? That… — Sadie K. Frazier Copy Share Image
“We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and… — C.J. Heck Copy Share Image
“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place.… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I cannot pretend to drown myself in nothingness when in reality I feel every single fucking thing in my soul. Sure I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“I’ve always hated it when authors seem to find joy In killing my favorite characters. With gleaming eyes they toy With turmoil… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers - established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
“Writers are those weird people that like to take off their skin in public.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The world goes to sleep when it's a cold winter. All except those writers in which it naturally rains inside of them… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.” — Jen Selinsky Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“The author is at one end of the experience of writing and the reader is at the other, and the book is… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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