Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world. — Ron White Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it — Alfred Lansing Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)”… — Margaret Harriman Copy Share Image
You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover… — Red Haircrow Copy Share Image
“It is not the job of writers to life our spirits. Books simply do what they do. They sometimes confirm the capricious… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage… — Chris D'Elia Copy Share Image
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they… — Thomas Fleming 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
“If you ask for my opinion in what regards Tim Ferris, Eckhart Tolle, Rhonda Byrne, Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling, you… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
“I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that… — André Breton Copy Share Image
There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know… — David Small Copy Share Image
“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.” — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
