I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. — Phillip Knightley Copy Share Image
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I don't want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges.” — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly. Little… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A lot of aspiring writers are actually very talented and just have to continue polishing their craft till opportunity knocks. All writers… — Myne Whitman Copy Share Image
“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with... stream of consciousness,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“This is what Laura loved about literature. You could see things in it that perhaps weren’t there, but might be. And even… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story… — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“You call me at 12am or 3am I will pick up your call. Once I make a commitment, I don't go back!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted.” — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
My most frequent collaborators at S.N.L. are the incredibly gifted writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider! — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
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