Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains,… — Robert Krulwich Copy Share Image
Everyone can write his own story, but no one can write your story The story of your life, so be thankful of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My advice for aspiring writers is simply this: NEVER GIVE UP. Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot achieve your… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
Writing is an expression of the writer's own peculiar personality, could not help being so. Yet in reading great works one feels… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Mostly, I would like people to ask other writers about the craft of their writing so we could learn from one another.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“As I drove out the wrought iron gates I had entered, I noticed for the first time how intricate and beautiful they… — Buffy Andrews Copy Share Image
We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers,… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love producing, writing. I rarely write with other writers unless I have a real great respect for them. Like Burt Bacharach,… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions -… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Writers displace their anxiety on to the tools of the trade. It's better to say that you haven't got the right pencil… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Some writers are seasoned raconteurs with an endless supply of stories and quips and one-liners. Others are reclusive and introverted souls who… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White’s strengths are sex, art and – sometimes – love. Each tends… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique.… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
