“Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.” — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
All the writers on our show went in and got in the bed and took a picture in Cher's bed, even though… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“To stomach the world for any prolonged length of time, one must either remain a child or become more than a man” — Michael Lieber Copy Share Image
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Of the birth of subgenres, there is no end. They arise like bubbles full of miraculous hopes and potentials from the Planckian… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to,… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I believe that a writer learns from every story he writes, and when you try different things, you learn different lessons. Working… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in. — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
“Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they… — Edward Koch Copy Share Image
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.” — ChiLibris Copy Share Image
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
