Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
“There are no bad writers only people with different taste and opinions” — Vianka Van Bokkem Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow. — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.” — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For me, Shonda Rhimes is an amazing person that I look up to. She empowered a lot of her writers to go… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens… — Peter Brooks Copy Share Image
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from a family of writers. My mom had been a writer, nonfiction books, and her mother was a playwright in… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
That's the thing: once it's in their hands, it's not my book anymore, it's theirs. I have no idea what happens when… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“I am the contrast. I am forever the crack in the window that lets the winter in. I am forever the moment… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“A writer who can’t use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Hollywood has made a big push to be more supportive of female writers and directors. — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. — John Banville Copy Share Image
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
“She has a beautiful heart that plays a euphonious symphony. She is the Zahir that touches your Soul.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write. — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
