Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“To call yourself an author takes publishing one book. To call yourself an inspirational author is the work of a lifetime that… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Having a support system is huge for writers. My parents were always encouraging and told me they were behind me, whether or… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse.… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as… — Lilian Gafni Copy Share Image
When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career... it doesn't get much nastier than that.… — James Corden Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and… — Andrea A. Lunsford Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Directing myself definitely made me a better actor. And, you know, I think actors have the best track record when they turn… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
A number of mysterious words , secretive puzzles, lot many confusionsand dilemma when enters a mind and make you feel a bit… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away… — William Golding Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those… — Sherwood Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about reality TV and that there are no roles left. That's false. Years ago, there were three networks. Now there… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography. They break the rules and admit the thing that is imagined, but is… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
“I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
