Writers Quotes · Page 62

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

— Rene Russo

The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers…

— Sue Naegle

“All great writers share one thing in common: They finished their books.”

— M. Kirin

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

— Lydia Davis

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

— Vanna Bonta

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.

— Kelley Armstrong

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.…

— Orson Scott Card

We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to…

— Chang-Rae Lee

When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging…

— John Steinbeck

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the…

— Tim Cahill

For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of…

— Blitberry

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out…

— Herbert Gold

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who…

— Sloane Crosley

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never…

— Alan Watt

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless…

— Margaret Atwood

There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either…

— Gloria Steinem

ABC's intelligently hilarious sitcom 'Modern Family' depicts a gay-male marriage in which both partners are refreshingly dimensional, believable human beings. The writers…

— Tom Shales

“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Yes, even old American writers are dancing like it is still the eighties in San Francisco, like the sexual revolution has been…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

— Sheri S. Tepper

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

— Derek Blasberg

“Writers don't sleep. Writers keep writing in their heads while they're dreaming.”

— Ksenia Anske

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Writers are those weird people that can break through misunderstandings and deliver stories that speak to many.

— Anonymous

“No.' It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's…

— Christy Hall

“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”

— Linda Nelson

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same…

— Dorothy Parker

Writing a love song for a girl is no good...but writing one for a Woman...Now that is something different.

— Jasari

You've got to give people an opportunity. But I also think that a lot of black writers don't know how to submit…

— Deon Cole

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job…

— Abraham Verghese

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.

— Dylan Thomas

“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

— Lincoln Child

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

— Joachim Frank