Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think many writers really believe that being published is a traumatic experience. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.” — Bill Willingham 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
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
Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is… — James Welch Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my… — LIZ Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Smart writers really take their time in investing in backstories and characters. As a viewer, you have to invest in them and… — Liza Weil Copy Share Image
There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“You know, it's not only writers who have this problem, but writers really, really have this problem; for us, a so-called train… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's fun when you have a whole team of writers that really like writing for someone; you always end up with some… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writers really do that. We weep over our characters. We are saddened sometimes for days when we say goodbye to a world… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
That's what's been fun about the relationship, these moments where they're going head-to-head and then pull together when they have to, when… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
