Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated… — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Now I belong to this fantastic group called The London Writers Salon, which runs Monday to Friday with sessions in London, New… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us… — David Crane Copy Share Image
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The really great writers are people like Emily Bront� who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was… — Ernst Pawel Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different,… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience. — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Being a creative person. It's so much more rewarding when you find things on your own, to live whatever the writers are… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
“Writers searching for their voice: Whatever you're afraid to say, whatever burns inside you, say it with conviction. You don't need a… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
“I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth… — Ariel Schrag Copy Share Image
I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done.… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
