“Writers need faith, or else we can never trust the action of our words!” — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
I feel that the world needs writers. We need to know what's really going on. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.' — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
“Writers need their wandering just as fish need their swimming and birds need their flying!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas 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
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Most writers need to write. I write for money, really. If I won the lottery, I would never write another word. I… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
“The fact is that as writers we need to make our mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make… — Suyog Ketkar Copy Share Image
My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
“Writers rarely set out to be national writers. They need small, intimate worlds, full of details; the macro scale of countries, especially… — Saadat Hasan Manto Copy Share Image
“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest… — Lori Lifsey Copy Share Image
We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and… — Bryan Lourd Copy Share Image
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Images are taking over, and writers are a dying breed. The Norman Mailers of today are reduced to writing pun-filled captions for… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine… — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Copy Share Image
“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so… — Pauletta Pearson Washington Copy Share Image
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content. — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image