What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but no one in Brave Heart carried one.~M.J. McGuire — MJ McGuire Copy Share Image
“[A]n old writer’s memory is the whore of his imagination. We all reinvent our pasts, I said, but writers are in a… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the… — Sean Hayes Copy Share Image
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
There's one thing about TV that I really think is true. If you find the right cast and the right writers, and… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people,… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image