If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I love the writers in Austin. We stick together. We all like each other and go to each other's book signings in… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
“I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing! I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit,… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantasy genre, anything by R.A. Salvatore or… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair,… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager… — Garrett Dennert Copy Share Image
For some reason, it seems like pop writers, it's like they just get worse or something over time. And then you're really… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
“An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer,… — Brian K. Vaughan 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
I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I… — Francesco Carrozzini Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American… — Paul Harris 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 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
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
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
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