Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in… — William Golding 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
Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which… — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
I rarely talk about work with writers, and I love getting together with writers. I think writers are great to get together… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
“How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll… — Bret Easton Ellis 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
I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I often said that writers are of two types. There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Children's book writers tend to feel quite superior, and adult writers tend to feel they wouldn't know how to write a children's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Like most writers, I tend to find out what I feel on a subject by writing about it. It is how we… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by… — Rona Jaffe Copy Share Image
“Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image