Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting. — Jakucho Setouchi Copy Share Image
“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike Copy Share Image
All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“You may think that you don't want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder… — Shoshannah Stern Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I met him. Him; him who in the midst of my terrible sorrow, fell in love with my madness. Him who was… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
“Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back… — Inez Kelley Copy Share Image
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
