Writers Quotes · Page 57

“Everyone now, not just writers, creates a written, published persona on a daily (hourly) basis. Artifice abounds.”

— Jill Talbot

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

“i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I do write about race a lot, but I don't think writers - of any shade or background or whatever - have…

— Colson Whitehead

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

— E. M. Forster

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.

— Harold Ross

In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.

— Tomi Adeyemi

“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not…

— Christopher Bram

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I…

— Francesco Carrozzini

There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who…

— Dana Spiotta

“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And…

— T.C. Boyle

“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I…

— Roman Payne

“You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be…

— Robert J. Randisi

My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can…

— Josh Gondelman

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American…

— Paul Harris

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody…

— Roseanne Barr

“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.…

— Oliver Markus

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've…

— Doris Lessing

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with…

— Sherman Alexie

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really…

— Jewel

“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I…

— Abhaidev

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

— David Wilkerson

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there…

— Sadie Jones

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

— Wallace Shawn

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

— Zach Woods

If someone does not see you as beautiful, this does not mean that you are not beautiful, but rather that they simply…

— Anonymous

I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them.

— Gail Honeyman

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

— Ken Liu

“People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.”

— Bruce Van Horn

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

— Roy Kesey

“Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.”

— Christopher Bram

“The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.”

— Stephanie Lennox

“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.”

— Ksenia Anske

“subgenres are products of the writers’ urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic”

— William Gibson

“Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.”

— Shannon Celebi