I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I like to work with co-writers because I think it's really fun to bounce ideas off each other. — Sara Evans Copy Share Image
There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors,… — William Fichtner Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas,… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either.… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
I'm a critic. That means you are a writer. So, yes, you have to make yourself an authority on whatever subject it's… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I… — Dennis Cooper 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
The main thing you worry about is just coming up with songs at all. I don't sit down and write stuff like… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I never went to college. I don’t believe in college for writers. I think too many professors are too opinionated and too… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you're young, your perception of what it means to be a writer is often less about the writing and more about… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Writing can be such a lonely endeavor that I do think community is also important.Meeting at cafes and exchanging work and reading… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Henry Miller, Genet, Sade, Bataille are really important writers for me and I love them, but I feel often they don’t love… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing?… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
