Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories. — Robert Newton Peck Copy Share Image
“Writers don't need food. Writers can survive on coffee, idea fumes, and trifles. Rich literary trifles.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
A lot of writers write for an audience that's going to understand them. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
“He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew… — Retta Copy Share Image
“The sense of pleasure you get creating something that doesn’t exist is inexplicable. I can never explain this joy in words. I… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I think all of us begin as writers. I wanted to be a writer from the time I as eight, long before… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif Laâbi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
