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title: "69 Writers Like Quotes by 64 authors"
description: "Browse 69 Writers Like quotes by 64 authors. Discover the best Writers Like sayings and thoughts."
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> [A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-groening/a-lot-of-our-writers-like-conan-o-brien-moved-on-to-other-things/)

[Matt Groening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-groening/)

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> [I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/i-think-writers-like-old-cities-and-are-made-very-nervous-by-new/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

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> [“All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-parini/all-writers-would-like-to-be-overrated-in-their-own-lifetimes/)

[Jay Parini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-parini/)

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> [When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cate-marvin/when-fiction-writers-like-my-poems-i-feel-like-i-ve-hit-the-jackpot/)

[Cate Marvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cate-marvin/)

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> [“It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/it-s-lovely-when-writers-i-like-like-each-other/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

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> [I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chapman/i-think-many-people-would-say-that-writers-like-stephen-king-have/)

[Tracy Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chapman/)

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> [Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheryl-crow/most-writers-like-to-maintain-some-sort-of-anonymity-for-me-making/)

[Sheryl Crow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheryl-crow/)

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> [Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/writers-like-elephants-have-long-vicious-memories-there-are-things-i/)

[William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-burroughs/)

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> [Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-vandermeer/angela-carter-leonora-carrington-even-nonsurrealists-like-kafka-and/)

[Jeff VanderMeer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-vandermeer/)

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> [I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/i-don-t-think-many-writers-like-their-best-known-piece-of-work/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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> [“Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francine-prose/consequently-we-sympathize-we-identify-we-care-in-fact-most-writers/)

[Francine Prose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francine-prose/)

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> [I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-bradford/i-ve-always-liked-the-classic-young-adult-writers-like-mark-twain/)

[Arthur Bradford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-bradford/)

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> [“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanif-kureishi/sometimes-writers-like-to-imagine-that-the-difficulty-of-becoming-a/)

[Hanif Kureishi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanif-kureishi/)

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> [I am really picky when it comes to writers. I like it when people push me and tell me that my lyrics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chappell-roan/i-am-really-picky-when-it-comes-to-writers-i-like-it-when-people-push/)

[Chappell Roan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chappell-roan/)

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> [What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mos-def/what-i-take-from-writers-i-like-is-their-economy-the-ability-to-use/)

[Mos Def](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mos-def/)

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> [The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/the-worst-thing-for-a-writer-is-to-know-another-writer-and-worse-than/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-edelstein/i-think-writers-like-to-see-how-people-bring-their-words-to-life-and/)

[Lisa Edelstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-edelstein/)

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> [Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cameron-crowe/probably-having-fallen-in-love-with-music-and-movies-at-a-young-age/)

[Cameron Crowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cameron-crowe/)

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> [I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tyler-childers/i-was-pretty-partial-to-kerouac-and-i-also-liked-flannery-o-connor/)

[Tyler Childers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tyler-childers/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-m-gavin/it-s-weird-i-don-t-feel-like-i-m-a-better-or-more-confident-writer/)

[James M. Gavin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-m-gavin/)

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> [I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/i-was-under-the-influence-of-the-early-modern-masters-fitzgerald-and/)

[Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/)

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> [“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-disliked-them-all-immediately-sitting-around-acting-clever-and/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [Writers like Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Russell Banks, Carolyn Chute, Alice Walker, so many others that I read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/micah-perks/writers-like-twain-whitman-dickinson-melville-louise-erdrich-toni/)

[Micah Perks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/micah-perks/)

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> [Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/somebody-said-that-writers-are-like-otters-otters-if-they-do-a-trick/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [“The cleverest writers give the someone we like not one but two things he wants VERY BADLY, and then puts them at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-c-wright-2/the-cleverest-writers-give-the-someone-we-like-not-one-but-two-things/)

[John C Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-c-wright-2/)

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> [Most beginning writers - and I was the same - are like chefs trying to cook great dishes that they've never tasted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-quinn/most-beginning-writers-and-i-was-the-same-are-like-chefs-trying-to/)

[Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-quinn/)

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> [..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/few-writers-like-other-writers-works-the-only-time-they-like-them-is/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-collins/many-people-are-partial-to-the-notion-that-all-writers-are-somehow/)

[Paul Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-collins/)

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> [Reading for writers is like training for athletes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-sue-park/reading-for-writers-is-like-training-for-athletes/)

[Linda Sue Park](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-sue-park/)

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> [Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-soule/us-writers-all-like-each-other-and-want-to-write-stories-with-each/)

[Charles Soule](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-soule/)

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> [I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mat-kearney/i-never-got-too-specialized-but-did-like-the-southern-gothic-writers/)

[Mat Kearney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mat-kearney/)

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> [There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laila-lalami/there-are-writers-i-return-to-no-matter-what-i-m-working-on-writers/)

[Laila Lalami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laila-lalami/)

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> [Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/most-of-the-writers-i-like-just-intimidate-and-humble-me-but-in-that/)

[Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/)

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> [Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-orlean/writers-like-to-write-and-writing-in-different-forms-short-long-bite/)

[Susan Orlean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-orlean/)

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> [I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wole-soyinka/i-think-most-writers-would-like-a-quiet-space-complete-isolation-in/)

[Wole Soyinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wole-soyinka/)

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> [“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yefon-isabelle/writers-are-like-gods-in-their-own-little-universes-constantly/)

[Yefon Isabelle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yefon-isabelle/)

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> [“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jyoti-arora/writers-are-like-actors-too-for-every-story-we-create-we-must-get/)

[Jyoti Arora](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jyoti-arora/)

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> [I've worked with some of the best of them. Not just directors like Sam Peckinpah and David Lynch, but writers like Sam…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-dean-stanton/i-ve-worked-with-some-of-the-best-of-them-not-just-directors-like-sam/)

[Harry Dean Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-dean-stanton/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/writers-are-such-phonies-they-sometimes-have-wise-insights-but-they/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

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> [I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-weinstein/i-really-admire-the-experimentalists-who-challenge-traditional/)

[Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-weinstein/)

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