“Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to… — T.J. Mihaila Copy Share Image
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The best self help books are the ones the authors wrote for and to themselves. Everyone is trying to be an expert.… — Ilwaad isa Copy Share Image
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself… — Stevie Jackson Copy Share Image
In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves… — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I can't wait for the rest of my career to meet these young writers and filmmakers so that I can produce and… — Lil Rel Howery Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The night echoes into my hollow lungs in a way that the morning and afternoon sun would never understand or be able… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, so I don't know what that looks like, but I can only imagine that you get all those… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I really like scripted dramas. My favorite show of all time would have to be 'Lost': I loved how the writers and… — Nick Jonas Copy Share Image
“It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in… — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
