Writers Quotes · Page 54

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a…

— James Hilton

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

— David Mitchell

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of…

— Brian K. Vaughan

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.”

— Roberto Bolaño

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

— Howard Hodgkin

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows,…

— Larry Cohen

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and…

— Ray Bradbury

“Writers are fortunate in that they are able to treat their neurosis every day by writing and as soon as the writer…

— Edmund Bergler

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences…

— Amor Towles

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for…

— Jonathan Dee

I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from…

— Micah Perks

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was…

— John Searles

“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,…

— Andrew Wilson

Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in…

— Doris Lessing

“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost…

— William Golding

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like…

— Cornelia Funke

We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal…

— Natalie Goldberg

“Socially interacting with a storyteller can be a frustrating challenge because a portion of her awareness is constantly sorting through the details…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really…

— David Guterson

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…

— William Strunk, Jr

“Me to Comma: I will never get use to you wanting to butt your way into my sentences -- even if you're…

— Buffy Andrews

“The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.”

— John Gardner

For as long as writers have written, they've had second thoughts about their work.

— Maria Konnikova

“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.”

— Susie Smith

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their…

— Sam Seder

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

— John Metcalf

“Be Patient. For what was written for you was written by the greatest of writers.”

— Islamic

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

— Katherine Boo

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great…

— Robin Williams

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

— Derrick Bell

Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second…

— Russell Smith

“I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.”

— Buffy Andrews