I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t believe that sleep had robbed him of this spectacle night after night. Such are the writer’s privileges, he thought, nostalgic… — César Aira Copy Share Image
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls… — Mark David Gerson Copy Share Image
“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact… — William J. Mann Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help… — Marina Oliver Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Stories often take their own course once you start to write them, especially when you have the benefit of a writers' room… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
“Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“If insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - then success is insanity squared!… — Brian Rock Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another’s… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers;… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
