I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. — William S. Burroughs 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
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify” — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I am really picky when it comes to writers. I like it when people push me and tell me that my lyrics… — Chappell Roan Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def 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
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse… — Tyler Childers Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I… — Robert Stone 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
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
Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The cleverest writers give the someone we like not one but two things he wants VERY BADLY, and then puts them at… — John C Wright Copy Share Image
Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention -… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
