Writers Quotes · Page 62

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

— Robert Munsch

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV…

— Danny Strong

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

— Frank Delaney

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

— Sarah Dessen

I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of.

— W. Earl Brown

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

— Harlan Ellison

It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.

— Matthew Weiner

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for…

— Giles Foden

Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just…

— Lauren Weisberger

A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are…

— Norm MacDonald

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably…

— Micah Perks

Actors yearn for the perfect director, athletes for the perfect coach, priests for the perfect pope, presidents for the perfect historian. Writers…

— Thomas Fleming

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours…

— Arthur Smith

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned…

— Leslie Dixon

“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the…

— Shannon L. Alder

Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience,…

— Karen Karbo

“Those who would like to become writers attend courses on writing poetry and prose and analyze their own work and that of…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“People don't like to talk about alcohol. They don't like to think about it, except in the most superficial of ways. They…

— Olivia Laing

“They say a writer is not a single person, it is a bunch of characters. What I learned from life is that…

— Himanshu Chhabra

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too…

— Lawrence Osborne

“I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know…

— Jonathan Swift

“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve,…

— John Crowley

“I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on…

— Orafoura

“Writers create impressions that inspire, stir emotions, evoke questions and sprinkle seeds of awe.”

— C. Toni Graham

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

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— John Metcalf

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

— Sam Seder

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

— Katherine Boo

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

— Islamic

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

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

— Edwin Morgan

“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ”

— Patrick Dennis

I don't think I'm any competition to the already-existing canon of writers in Kannada. How can I ever even think of comparing…

— Amish Tripathi

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

— Núria Añó

“Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.”

— Bill Willingham

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

“The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.”

— Kellie Elmore