I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“You know your a survivor, a strong fighter, because you’re here in this moment. You must believe in your strength and courage… — Jawedquotes Copy Share Image
Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Where I teach students in drama school, there's a course called Dramatics. In this course, all students must put on a play.… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“An editor doesn't just read, he reads well , and reading well is a creative, powerful act. The ancients knew this and… — Susan Bell 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
Realistic writing kept me stable. It kept my mind less clustered by resting my soul; pouring it onto a blank canvas. I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air. — Warren Littlefield Copy Share Image
Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“No one can sing well, play well, or write well, without living through moments of the deepest pain and anguish. Every real… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
“To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.” — Angie-Marie Delsante Copy Share Image
“If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers… — Sue Naegle Copy Share Image
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write.… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
